Word: avail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classes have called up to reserve thewhole theatre," said Christina A. DePalma, whoworks at the Janus Cinema. Desperate viewers wereoffering prices up to $50 for remaining ticketsyesterday, but to no avail...
...actually approached to write a book on a guide to single women, how single women can muddle through and avail themselves of whatever opportunities there are. There was to be a chapter on the cities you can move to where the sex ratio is in your favor...
Shuttling back and forth between his Houston home and Washington, D.C., Mallard spoke to various State Department officials, but to no avail...
...says Bergen, "but then this glint of a zealot appeared. With the recent poverty figures that have been released, and the highest levels of unemployment since 1984, making ((Murphy's motherhood)) a campaign issue is insane." Producer Diane English -- who even challenged Quayle to debate the < issue, to no avail -- draws a rather far-fetched parallel between the Administration's campaign against TV and the '50s blacklist: "I really feel like I'm entering a new era of McCarthyism, where one day somebody is going to come up to me and say, 'Are you now or have you ever been...
...least they go offstage. That's not the case with Clive and Mrs. Saunders (Vonnie Roemer), a widow who enjoys flogging. Clive expresses passions for her that have no place in the patronizing domesticity of his marriage. She resists his advances at first, but to no avail. Undeterred, Clive sticks his head under her skirt and they have a jolly good time...