Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June 11-Sir Stafford Cripps returns to London, the intimation being that his efforts to get any sort of understanding with Stalin have been fruitless...
...from one horn to the other before throwing him to the ground. By this time, someone had come up to distract the animal, and Balderas got to his feet, walked to the fence and collapsed. He was taken to the infirmary, where he died 50 minutes later after a fruitless injection of adrenalin and two blood transfusions. That was how death, as it must to all men, came to Alberto Balderas. KEN W. PURDY New York City...
...news of Nanking's recognition came reports that 5,000 Chinese had been slaughtered in what was called the "climax of clean-up operations.'' But the real significance of the treaty was found in a Tokyo admission that peace overtures to Chiang had proved fruitless, and in a clause of the treaty which authorized the Japanese to keep troops in China until two years after "complete peace is restored everywhere in China." There has not been complete peace in China for centuries. The U. S. reply to Wang's recognition was a whopping...
...ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects a crown ("I must view with abhorrence"). Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby, whose sons had been killed in battle ("I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine. . . ."). Emerson hails Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds...
...hobby cost him little. From his far-snatched empire the Little Corporal gleaned many a masterpiece, filled the Tuileries and the Musee Napoleon with countless plundered art treasures. He pilfered so much, from so many places, that the record of his thefts has been a subject of much fruitless speculation to art historians...