Word: relentlessness
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...usual, Fiorello LaGuardia had enraged thousands of New Yorkers, tickled thousands, and fascinated thousands. But he had bored very few. Perhaps that was his secret, even more than his withering frankness and his relentless fight for honest government. Whatever it was, the people knew one thing for certain: after 12 years New York City was losing the best Mayor it had ever...
...same spot the Prince of Wales and Repulse had been-under heavy air attack without air cover. The fleet fought back hard, zigzagged crazily, poured purple, red, yellow and green antiaircraft puffs into the skies. The Yamato's 16-inch guns roared. But the attack was relentless. The battleship, smashed by eight torpedoes and eight 1,000-lb. armor-piercing bombs, went down in a roaring explosion. The two cruisers and three of the destroyers were sunk, the six remaining destroyers heavily damaged...
More important still, the Rio experiment had proved that hard work and cooperation, plus Government help without Government interference, could beat the old, relentless U.S. economy of waste; most of the land of Rio Farms had lain unused during the whole, dreary dust-bowl migration...
...just doing what they're paying me for." The record of his tours of duty is as unglamorous as it is long; in World War I, though he got to France, he saw no action. In one thing he takes pride: he has commanded, in relentless progression, a squad, a platoon, a company, a regiment, a brigade, a division, a corps and an army. He dislikes the lofty impersonality forced on him by his present duty-"Hell, I'd rather have a regiment." Now, he says, "I don't do much except think a lot, scold...
...Britons ventured on "Happy New Year" greetings last week. Their New Year mood, conditioned by Rundstedt's drive and the prolongation of the five-year-old war, was caught by the relentless national jester Nat Gubbins (London Sunday Express): "By looking through the bottom of an upturned glass in a dimout [one can foresee that] the war, of course, will continue almost indefinitely, and as the people get more & more fed up with it the Government will lose its temper and impose stricter measures for keeping noses to the grindstone...