Word: relentlessly
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...Fatah and its sister fedayeen groups have carried on a relentless campaign of military action and terror against Israel, both in the Middle East and elsewhere. Since the Six-Day War, when the guerrillas undertook an anti-Israel campaign that the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were too devastated to mount, the warfare has resulted in the deaths of at least 800 Israelis and the wounding of 2,350. In savage, eye-for-eye retribution, the Israelis have returned terror for terror?usually in the form of attacks on commando strongholds and Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Syria...
...powerful Green, meanwhile, pressured the Radcliffe defense with a relentless attack the entire game. Only the stalwart efforts of Nancy Sato, Ann Dupuis, and Cha-Nan Tang, who was moved to the back line from her familiar center forward position, kept the score at a respectable 2-0 during the first half...
...week Pat Nixon visited the bedside of her husband as he underwent treatment for a blood clot in the lung-not quite two months after his humiliating resignation. Now she shared his exile, a bitter reward for a life of self-effacing, tireless and often joyless devotion to the relentless demands of a unique political career...
Some women, to be sure, would be unhappy no matter what their husbands' occupations and would turn in their despair to drink, to drugs, to affairs. But probably no other career makes such relentless demands on wives and families as politics. Witness Pat Nixon in virtual exile at San Clemente. "We are worried about Pat," an associate of the Nixons confides. "She has not been in touch with any of her close friends. It's not like her." Witness Eleanor McGovern, once again on the stump in South Dakota, confessing with her customary candor: "I would like...
Theirs is the kind of male mentality that is incapable of understanding any man who is not fond of violence. Despite a tendency to blame the emotional problems of American youth on "Mom," these men exert relentless efforts to make their sons "real men." If you want to be brave in their eyes, and no boy wants to be a "chicken" to his father, you must oppose violence only if it springs from minority frustrations and admire it at all other times...