Word: avail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's remarks. The windows of the jury bus were whited over with Bon Ami so that no juror could glimpse the headline on street newsstands. If the jury discovered Nixon's verdict, the defense might have grounds for a mistrial. His efforts were to no avail. Next day Manson himself displayed a copy of the Times to the jury for some ten seconds before a bailiff grabbed the newspaper from his hands. Judge Older called a recess, then questioned the jurors one by one to satisfy himself that their judgment would not be affected. An alternate juror...
...countess jaunted about in her sole remaining Horch-Pullman, her feudal subjects tried to gladden her heart by tugging their forelocks and putting on displays of their simple country pastimes, such as munching sausages, guzzling beer and blowing flugelhorns. To no avail. The countess subliminally yearned for some wunder-myth of a man who would kiss the castle back to life-with money-so that she could re-enter it in grand style and give way to those mad, scandalous fantasies that constantly invaded her mind, such as gorging on imported strawberries...
...terrified passengers, but the air pirates spurned his offer. "They said I was only one while the passengers were many," he said later. "It seems my stock is falling." Arab ambassadors who were summoned to the airport urged the hijackers to release the passengers, but to no avail. As temperatures rose in the broiling midday sun, tension mounted in the sweltering plane. The hijackers, at first confident and polite, became edgy and fingered their weapons menacingly. "The girl was doing things like getting water for passengers," recalled one man who was aboard the plane. "But as time passed the hijackers...
...exotic breeds as props for pickups. In Manhattan's Riverside Park, one eccentric spinster used to talk incessantly to her aged dachshund while wheeling it about in a baby carriage. An indignant father once tried to embarrass her by having his toddler wear a dog muzzle, to no avail...
This soft line approach would necessitate paying more careful attention to the demands of student radicals. It would involve more negotiation and communication between the divergent groups. If a takeover of University Hall, for instance, lasted for a week with administrators ??? negotiating to no avail. it seems that students would ask the Administration to invoke temporary suspension against the demonstrators. followed by CRR hearings. (But there would be no such student sentiment if the protesters' demands were completely above reproach.) If demonstrators still refused to leave after temporary suspension, the vast majority of students would probably demand a court injunction...