Word: availing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behavior of the super-powers. We consider accurate understanding of this point to be of such importance that we have published two short pamphlets on the subject. Indeed we consider the subject urgent due to the current oscillatory excalation in preparations for war. Perhaps your reporter did not avail himself of this opportunity for clarification because he feels the arguments is trivial. There is an unfortunate tendency throughout the American mass media irresponsibly to trivialize urgent matters and to dwell on the trivial. Let me assure you that the question of the nature of mass social pathology, and the role...
...Tsar's forces. During both world wars the country sided with Germany, but it could never bring itself to declare war against the Soviet Union. In 1944, the regency of seven-year-old King Simeon II scrambled to forge a separate peace with the Allies, but to no avail. Stalin's troops marched through the country unopposed and a coalition government was installed, with the Communists gaining complete control...
...Zimbabwe's air force, while ZIPRA rebels abducted six tourists (two Americans, two British and two Australians) returning from a trip to Victoria Falls. Nkomo disavowed the crimes and traveled through Matabeleland urging the locals to aid in the hunt for the kidnaped tourists, but to no avail. There have been no negotiations with the abductors, and the fate of the foreigners remains unknown...
...husband then caught another cab (again explaining the situation) only to discover that the Central Square automatic teller, too, was inoperative. This cab driver would not accept the money order or a cheque, forcing my husband to go on to yet another branch of the same bank to no avail. The cab driver then took him to two places where the driver knew the proprietor, but neither would cash the money order, despite being apprised of the situation. Finally, by happenstance, they tried a Dunkin Donuts, where the money order was cashed, and my husband was able...
Chatwin interrupts this sibling harmony with England's entry into World War 1. The farm is not big enough to warrant service exemptions for both of them. Their father explains to the local authorities "how his sons were not two persons, but one," to no avail. Benjamin is inducted and hauled off to the nearest barracks: "A month later, certain warning signals told Lewis that the army had given up trying to train his brother, and was using force." Benjamin's "dishonorable discharge" spares the twins from physical injuries, but the word that both are slackers and shirkers...