Word: relentlessness
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...abandonment of French democracy has, of course, deep roots in the character of France's present head men. Eleven months of relentless German pressure might have forced some civilian leaders of conquered France to yield a great deal, without turning them into fascists. But few of France's professional soldiers have any deep appreciation of democracy. In retrospect it seemed last week that Vichy's action was a foregone conclusion, especially after the great recent Nazi victories...
...Playwright Franken, a veteran ladies' magazine fictioneer, either does not know or thinks it would not be nice to reveal that what she is handling is the very serious subject of adult infantilism. Claudia's unhealthy immaturity remains masked for three acts behind a screen of tedious, relentless Ladies' Home Journal cuteness...
...north the Australian pursuit was relentless. R. A. F. bombers made junk of Italian trucks along the way, and Hurricanes mounting eight guns brushed the marching refugee troops with lead. The Italians hurried for Barce, where the northern railway spur from Bengasi ends, but before many troops could entrain and get away, the Australians were right on the Italian behind...
LONDON--German "Big Bertha" guns today flung salvoes of shells into an English coastal town after relentless night assaults by British bombers on an 300-mile stretch of Adolf Hitler's "Invasion front" and his war centers of Bremen and Hanover...
...before the stern is visible, the fog hides the hull. A whistle tears the softness with a shriek: the grey blanket settles down more softly than before. Scene: the North Sea, whose oily green waters, even in summer, look cold. Time: World War II. Action: the hushed, relentless pursuit and escape of Nazi and British ships, alternately each other's victims...