Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answering the Wallaceites' attacks the Marshall Plan Committee termed its drive a "positive approach to influence congressional action," and restated its program, "rather than become involved in an exchange of fruitless discussions with any group...
...object of this fruitless expedition was first started in 1919 when John Phillips Sousa was the man to be reckoned with and Harvard yet to be heard from. Stomping through the halves of games in the days when Red Grange was carried two miles by jubilant admirers, the Band reached its full growth in the 30's when "Wintergreen" and other Leroy Anderson arrangements filled the Stadium when the teams weren't trying. Perfecting its half-time lock step, the Band could soon wind itself through 33 letters in 7 1-2 minutes while simultaneously playing a medley...
...Lamb Chop. He kept Congress in an uproar. He railed against Andrew Volstead and his dry law, once concocted home brew in a Harlem drugstore in a fruitless attempt to get himself arrested. During a speech on high prices, he waved a lamb chop at his congressional colleagues. He helped write the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which banned "yellow-dog" labor contracts and strikebreaking by injunction...
...India, for instance, he found that sending telegrams was a fruitless occupation because the operators were likely to mail the message to its city of delivery, where another operator retyped it on a telegraph form-both operators then pocketing the difference. On the other hand many of India's top Hindu and Moslem leaders went out of their way to tell Baker that, in or out of jail, they would not be without their weekly copy of TIME...
Efforts at locating a registered nurse who claimed seeing the missing girl in Cambridge, also proved fruitless...