Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They Planned. Of all last week's Democratic victories, the Minnesota win was the surest payoff of painstaking party organization, of long-range planning, of relentless year-round politicking and careful selection of candidates...
...heavy cape alternately like a regal robe, a witch's hood or a pair of bat wings, Callas managed a breath-taking range of emotion: she seemed to caress the air when pleading tenderly with Jason, then railed at him with fists clenched and her voice full of relentless fury, again sank to her knees with heart-breaking bell tones of despair. She could rail against Zeus himself with the scorn of a rebellious goddess, then chilled the audience in a sort of death march as she seized a dagger and prepared to kill her sons...
Probably disheartened by these muffed chances, the varsity then gave way be- fore the Bruin's relentless touchdown march, the score coming on the game's last play, a roll-out by quarterback Frank Finney...
Captain Fred Tiley will be the leading offensive threat for Princeton. This 200-pound fullback, who is structured like a small army tank, gave last year's Harvard line a relentless pounding between the tackles. He was a key figure in the second-half comeback that carried Princeton to a 28-20 victory over the Crimson...
...slow to arrive at decisions, he partly made up for it by a relentless, austere capacity for hard work. Even at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius had a mania about wasting a second. Sitting under a red umbrella in the shade of a huge ilex tree (he could not bear strong sunlight), or walking briskly in his shaded garden, he kept his nose buried in documents he was studying. During his solitary, silent and frugal meals, Pius listened to the news broadcasts, but so chary was he of an unnecessary word that once when he sneezed...