Word: availing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public house, would he look at it as 'A Horse and a Hound' or 'An Orse and an Ound'?" Lord Merthyr fell back on no less an authority than Fowler to prove that an hotel would be hopelessly old-fashioned-but to no avail. When the debate was over, the ans won out. Said aman Lord Merthyr of an-man Lord Faringdon, an Etonian like himself: "It is rather sad to think that the noble Lord and I should have been educated in the same place, and at the same time, and that 40 years later...
...avail. Last week, as a detachment of dedicated females watched sternly from the balcony, Japan's legislators unanimously passed the first antiprostitution bill in Japanese history. "It was bound to happen sooner or later," said one shrugging male legislator...
...nearby military base means a box-office bonanza. But not to Delbert Kinsel, proprietor of the Skyborn Cruise-In at Fairborn, Ohio. Every time a jet from busy Wright-Patterson Air Force Base howled overhead, it drowned out the sound track and rattled the patrons' teeth. To no avail, Kinsel asked the base commander to keep his planes on the ground at night. Once, in desperation, he even sent season passes to all Wright-Patterson pilots, innocently assuming that they would rather see a movie than fly their assigned missions...
Uchimura prayed to his Shinto gods to protect him from becoming a Christian, but to no avail. He was converted, and with six friends he formed a congregation. They met in a dormitory room, preached from a flour barrel, and rotated the office of preacher among them...
...past, Nationalists had called the unnerving ladies rude names ("foolish virgins," "weeping Winnies") to no avail. This time Strydom ordered his Cabinet ministers to ignore them. A dozen women entered Parliament itself, and at a signal put on their black sashes, in mourning for South Africa's constitution. An usher demanded that they remove the sashes. They complied, then calmly took black artificial roses from their handbags and pinned them to their dresses. The usher demanded that these be removed too, but the sergeant at arms nervously ruled that the black flowers could be worn. The women knew their...