Word: availed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then lobbed one high into the gale wind behind second base that dropped in to score another. The play brought about more objections from the Brandeis bench, which felt the umpire should have invoked the infield fly rule on the play. As usual, however, the objections were to no avail...
...Black Hawks then pulled Esposito for a sixth skater, but it was to no avail as Phil Esposito, Tony's brother, wrapped up the Bruins' victory with an open-net goal...
...that vision--when it's all most people can do to fight a different vision, one of rigid totalitarian control like those of Chile's new and Portugal's's overthrown dictatorship, like (on a much smaller, milder, and more hesitant scale) the illegal tactics President Nixon liked to avail himself of. May Day is especially important this year, because it reminds is that we are after something more...
...professors met with representatives of Maguire. The same week Maguire requested a two-week extension on its contract and students in the Graduate School of Design announced they would take a poll to see what Cantabrigians really think of the library. Everyone is working but to no avail...
Fucci and Jackson started things off with one-out singles. The duo advanced a base on a long foul to St. Pierre after tagging up. The Crimson launched an appeal (to no avail of course) to the umpires that the pair took off before the catch, but it didn't much matter as the next batter, Brent Clark, walked to load the bases...