Word: resistlessly
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...when he placed ninth; in 1909 he was third, 1912 third, 1913 fourth, 1914 sixth, 1919 fifth, 1920 tenth, 1921 fourth, 1922 fifth. This season he has been playing his standard game, neither better nor worse. He is not capable of rising to a pitch of resistless efficiency; he is always capable of astounding by being just what he is expected to be-always able to confound doom's fifers by playing in any situation dependable, heady, incisive tennis. To every man comes a moment which he can mistake for his "chance." Certain sports writers hinted that Johnson might...
...that it is only because he is capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's. The truth can never be known, but assuredly, in the third set of this match, he became what his supporters say he is-the pale resistless nonpareil of tennis. So it fell out that he and Richards took the next three sets, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, the match, the National Doubles title...
...clubhouse, faced photographers, began to rally. The gallery which filled the stucco stadium was amazed to see a sort of, could it be, well nervousness in the champion's play. No, merely caution. But as the first set progressed they began to have fears. Where was the resistless speed? Where the champion's iron nerves? Even that poker face was wan now, as Miss McKane, playing as if the sub-subconscious conviction of victory, took the first set, 6-3. Twenty-four minutes later the match was over. Miss Wills, in the greatest tennis exhibition of her life...
Impelled by the resistless logic of this thought, the musical Moravians called their Pennsylvania town Bethlehem. Upon their arrival, they built a stockade, a church, organized the trombone choir. Legend maintains that, when predatory Indians beleaguered the town in 1755, the strains of the trombones so enchanted their savage bosoms that they buried their tomahawks and sought salvation with glittering eyes, clad only in belts of wampum. The concerts of the Bethlehemites, however effective in war, were for long informal, unorganized, until M. Woole (born 1863) went to Germany, studied under Rheinberger, became the passionate admirer of Composer Sebastian Bach...
...Resistless the team sweeps goalward Mid the fury of the blast...