Word: relentlessness
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...President did say "always." But then, that was more than three years ago. For the past two months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...
Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia's presidency...
...looked as if the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia had finally given way to relentless Communist pressure. "Priests and Catholic laymen," said a government spokesman last week, "are now obligated to faithful and effective collaboration ... in the building of socialism...
...With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have a way of dragging Malvolio-a great comic figure by virtue of being almost tragic-down to their own level...
Thousands more knock on agency doors every year, driven by their own ambitions, by unscrupulous "modeling schools" which promise to turn them into cover girls in six easy lessons, or by relentless mothers. But disillusion awaits them...