Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan has carried out a policy of relentless Jim Crow segregation and suppression against both blacks and Indians. Last week in the Union's third largest city, Durban, where some 124,000 of the white masters live dangerously close to native quarters teeming with twice as many blacks and about 110,000 Indians, the smouldering resentment of South Africa's Negroes sprang to flame. Inexplicably, they turned it against the only people more oppressed than themselves...
...fast, exciting chase with psychological overtones-gives Loretta Young a chance to play a menaced heroine, a role that she does with high skill. Will murder out? Will the beautiful professor be mangled in the coils of her own guilt-or will she be stalked down by the smart, relentless detective? Her only escape seems to be offered by a handsome young lawyer (Robert Cummings) who loves her even when he begins to doubt her innocence. But Loretta is as thoroughly fascinated by the strategy of her accuser as she is by the fond advice of counsel...
...Water"-fits even better. He stands 5 ft. 8½ in. and weighs only 140 lbs., but he manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf. Apart from such purely technical skills, little Ben Hogan is the fiercest competitor in the game. With his relentless training schedule and assembly-line precision, Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world. Any man who outscores the champ more than once this year will have to have most of the same qualities, because machine-like Golfer Hogan rarely...
Patriotic Savagery. As the century advanced, the bloods took on a deeper sheen of respectability. Savagery was given a patriotic purpose, and the pirate's victim rose out of the scuppers to become the pirate's relentless pursuer. Aimed now directly at the juvenile market, boys' magazines arose for every class, their authors ranging from Talbot Baines Reed, G. A. Henty and P. G. Wodehouse to a lesser-known host of "clergymen, headmasters, baronets, officers . . . titled ladies...
...only half a year and is fast becoming a legend. His prodigious appetite, his great girth, the license plate that says "HICK," and the famous stories about the folks back home all eat up news inches, while the Yale team forges ahead undisturbed by the intense light of relentless publicity...