Word: availing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron discipline and courts-martial are no longer of any avail...
...newsmen trooped into Ed Stettinius' office to test the new businesslike effectiveness. Stettinius was cordial, as always. He was also mum as a clam. The correspondents probed and pounced, trying one approach after another, but to no avail. The New Dealing New York Post's William O. Player asked: "Does the U.S. attitude depend on Churchill?" Replied Ed Stettinius: "No comment." To all questions, he returned the same answer. Finally, the Chicago Sun's exasperated Tom Reynolds remarked tartly: "It seems to be possible to be more frank in London." Once again, Stettinius purred an amiable...
...Possible reasons: 1) in a dream sequence silk-hatted Capitalist Raymond Walburn plants a spatted foot on the neck of Common Man Fibber McGee; 2) elsewhere McGee murmurs some higher economics about making supply meet demand; 3) still elsewhere, Soap-Boxer McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington, and Dr. Gallup's search for America's Absolutely Average Man. Pleasant, corny performers with extremely experienced voices, the radio-famed...
...over. The enemy had completed the road south from Changsha to Hengyang; he had made progress in restoring the railway to service, and he had cleared the Siang River of mines. Major General Chennault's airmen had flown their hearts out, bombing and strafing, but to little avail. The Japanese had at least seven well armed, well clad, well supplied divisions in the field. The Chinese had lost most of their artillery at Changsha. They still had foot soldiers galore...
...enlisted the help of two potent Democrats, National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan and Vice Presidential Nominee Harry Truman, both of whom are from Missouri, and both now very close to Franklin Roosevelt. Neither had to be shown that Bennett Clark was in deep trouble. Their aid was of no avail. In last week's primary Bennett Clark was snowed under. Reasons: 1) his own soggy inertia-he neglected his mail, several times stood up audiences that had come to hear him; 2) the opposition of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee; 3) the aggressive campaign waged at every creek...