Word: availed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just showed clinical pictures. Thirteen months ago, Senora R., wife of a Havana street-cleaner, was near death from a recurrence of cancer (an operation for breast removal four years earlier had failed to eliminate all the disease sites). Hormone and X-ray treatments were of no further avail...
...this warning went to no avail and on November 26 it was announced that Baker had resigned to accept a position as director of a Yale Drama School to be set up with the gift of a million dollars from E. S. Harkness, a gift which probably had also been offered to Harvard and turned down. The reaction was immediate and indignant. The CRIMSON wrote a vituperative editorial which laid the blame for Baker's resignation squarely at the feet of the President and Overseers and their "shameful neglect" of Baker. "Their guilt must not go unnoticed," the editorial declared...
Nice to See You. As the zero hour approached, friends pleaded and entreated with Marc to change his mind, to no avail. On the morning of Sept. 28, gloom hung like a pall in the bar of Le Practic. Even VoVo lay silent, crouched in a corner. Then someone, peering from the window, cried, "Why, there's Marc now!" And down the street, wearing the neat, pin-stripe suit that fitted him so snugly, came Marc. "I've decided to give myself a reprieve," he beamed. "Beefsteak with pepper, please, Madame. Well, it's nice...
...about a condition which permits Americans to be sent into combat and then have victory denied them, not by the enemy but by the very Government we were fighting to preserve . . . Have the words of MacArthur, Van Fleet, and the thousands upon thousands of Korean veterans been of no avail? Have over 24,000 American men, killed by steel from the sanctuary of Manchuria, died in vain...
...nothing to do with their travels, Alan Ladd made no bones about it. Said he: "After all, some 300,000 persons are doing the same thing, and why the motion picture players should be stigmatized is a mystery to me ... I see no reason why I should not avail myself of this exemption because...