Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schizophrenia is an occupational sickness of civilized men in wartime. Here is a relentless, rending case history of it, really a case history of every free mind that is aware of the present retrogression of Europe. Essentially, Robert Jordan is a psychological week, and his story is only more poignant because on the surface he is a normal, healthy, and super-courageous young man. He loves, as only a Heminway hero can, at both extremes of romance and grossness. He organizes, he leads, he inspires the little group of Spanish peasants who are helping him. But to keep his precarious...
...since June (extended last month to include Italy's key motor, magneto and aircraft plants at Milan and Turin, and last week to Sardinia) spreads from the Lake of Constance on the Swiss border to Kiel on the Baltic, and now as far east as Berlin (see map). Relentless, consistent, it was stepped up by last week to at least 800 planes per night, neutral observers believed, carrying a nightly total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry for a war that might...
...large . . . those forces will not stop unless and until they recognize that there exists unbreakable resistance. ... I would greatly prefer to say that we are safe in this country and in this hemisphere from outside danger. But I am firmly convinced that what is taking place today . . . is a relentless attempt to transform the civilized world . . . into a world in which lawlessness, violence and force will reign supreme. . . . The one and only sure way for our nation to avoid being drawn into serious trouble or actual war ... is for our people to become thoroughly conscious of the possibilities of danger...
...been hearing much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...
...Mexican newspaper, El Popular, organ of Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Mexican Federation of Labor, opened fire on Cortesi and Burton. Ever since the Nazi-Soviet pact last August, El Popular has carried on a relentless campaign of invective against democracy. Not even Mexico's pro-Nazi magazine Timon can equal the virulence of El Popular'1- attacks on the U. S., President Roosevelt, Britain and France...