Word: relentlessly
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...literature, but his prose had the opposite virtue: simple and severe, it had a classical elegance that many felt had gone out of fiction since the literary experimentation of Modernism. As his novels grew darker, readers found a philosophy behind his work, a vision of the world as a relentless pressure that had to be resisted with grit and intelligence. But when Naipaul began churning out books of reportage on the countries he visited, the fiction writer shriveled: his 1980s and '90s were dominated by journalism, with a few exceptions such as his semiautobiographical novel The Enigma of Arrival...
...word "impasse" no longer adequately describes the state of relations between the two peoples after four years of relentless bloodletting. There is, quite simply, no peace process to speak of right now, and the clock may have been turned back 15 years. Palestinian institutions have largely collapsed, and real power on the streets of places such as Gaza is contest of wills between Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyr's brigade, on the one hand, and the Israeli Defense Force on the other. The Palestinians know they have been atrociously led by Arafat, but that doesn't make them...
...similar battle at the line of scrimmage figures prominently into tomorrow’s game. Harvard’s offense has averaged 222.7 yards rushing in its first three games, scoring 10 touchdowns on the ground. The relentless Cornell defense will try to put an end to Dawson’s quest for a 10th straight 100-yard effort. Dawson last failed to pass the century mark against Cornell a year...
...outcome the Crimson is desperatly looking to avoid. In order to ensure a victory this time around, Harvard plans to take advantage of the Big Red’s tendency to swing the ball around by finding holes in the defense and carrying out a relentless attack...
Lemkin, a haunted refugee and relentless lobbyist, managed to construct a lasting norm, as Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary granted his coinage lexicographic admission. In 1948 he went door to door at the new United Nations and persuaded representatives to endorse the Genocide Convention, the U.N.'s first human rights treaty, which committed signatories to "undertake to prevent and to punish" the monstrous horror...