Word: relentlessness
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...letters that Novelist Henry (Loving) Green calls him in a jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...
...conclusion: "I have seen in action all the great international statesmen of this century ... I have never seen such personal diplomatic skill at so high a degree of perfection as Mr. Molotov's." Other diplomats are not quite so laudatory: they admire Molotov's patience and his relentless persistence, but they think he is too inflexible...
...Warren House has a phobia, most likely it is a microphobia, a fear of smallness. The English department's undergraduate courses, especially the basic English 10, are noted for their grand, sweeping approach to English literature, and a relentless pace to boot. The Department has always eschewed specialized courses at the lower levels to favor the large survey type approach to literature...
Each volunteer takes the following pledge when he joins the movement: "We, the oppressed people of South Africa, hereby solemnly pledge ourselves to carry on a relentless struggle to repeal the unjust laws as laid down in the plan of action of the African National Congress, supported by the South African Indian Congress, the Colored Peoples Organization, and other freedom-loving peoples. We shall do all in our power, to the utmost limits of endurance and sacrifice, to carry out the Congress Call against unjust laws which subject our people to political servility, economic misery and social degradation. From this...
Once again the police absolved Mrs. Gutheridge of blame. They suggested, too, that she try to arrange a meeting with her telephone tormentor so that they might trap him. But Dorothy Gutheridge, near collapse, could no longer endure the sound of her phone and the relentless daily question. With her father, she fled to a relative's home. "Sometimes I think I am an instrument of death," she said last week. "Sometimes it just seems I can never get in an automobile again. I don't know what I am going to do, but I think...