Word: avails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lolling in your tubs scented with bath oils, in houses equipped with burglar and fire alarms. But what are ye safe from while imperiling your own souls? For he who said he would come as a thief in the night will do even so, and all your alarms will avail you naught in that hour when ye shall see him face to face . . . For in that dread day you shall get the message. Without CB . . . it shall be, that's it, buddy boy. For not all the air conditioning in the world can make you anything but a stench...
...University may find a paper wall erected around its current campus. Chances are, had the exemption been repealed 15 years ago. Mather House would not have been built. Certainly Harvard would have had a much more difficult time constructing the Radcliffe Gym, which powerless neighbors squawked about to small avail. And 7 Sumner Rd. would probably still be an apartment building--and nothing else...
When residents of the Mission Hill and Brookline area caught wind of Fierra's decision, they cried out in anger but to little avail...
...STOOD ALONE on the stage in Montreal's smoke-filled Paul Sauve Arena, cigarette absent, trying to start his speech to no avail. "Mes chers amis," he said several times in an attempt to quiet the crowd's thunder. After a quarter of an hour, Rene Levesque, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois and premier of Quebec, finally launched into his concession of defeat in Tuesday's province-wide referendum. "Until next time," he told his supporters, eliciting another raucous round of applause...
...Chairman Yasser Arafat visited Baghdad last November in an effort to convince Iraq not to try to seize the disputed islands; he also visited Riyadh and asked the Saudis not to support such a move. Arafat has even offered to mediate the present dispute, but so far to no avail. Last week neither side appeared to be in any hurry to cool off. Retorted Saddam Hussein in response to Iran's threats to destroy his regime: "Whoever raises a hand against Iraq will have his arm chopped...