Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devoid of moral significance. Aztec theology held that in bygone eras mankind had been successively wiped out by jaguars, by hurricanes, by fiery volcanic rains. The Aztecs in 1519 believed that their world would in time end amid horrendous earthquakes controlled by the Sun God. So with a relentless if grisly logic, they propitiated the deities at all costs, offering up mankind's most precious possession, its own lifeblood...
...destroyed at the source. Hitler knows that he ... must . . . destroy liberty here in America and make this great nation part of his new Nazi world order. It is clear now to all of us that the onward march of Nazi barbarism must be stopped, or like the relentless tides of the ocean it will engulf the whole world...
...weeks ago, Nazis had begun air concentration. Latakia, famed for its dark and pungent tobacco and Syria's northernmost port, was another objective of this British-Arab column. Latakia is vital to the defense of 70-mile offshore Cyprus, which was bombed by Axis planes for 48 relentless hours last week...
...front of the White House was in a gloomy mood. All day long, all night long, pickets of the American Peace Mobilization-always at least a dozen of them-paraded up & down before the White House. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the relentless pickets kept...
...abandonment of French democracy has, of course, deep roots in the character of France's present head men. Eleven months of relentless German pressure might have forced some civilian leaders of conquered France to yield a great deal, without turning them into fascists. But few of France's professional soldiers have any deep appreciation of democracy. In retrospect it seemed last week that Vichy's action was a foregone conclusion, especially after the great recent Nazi victories...