Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news story, has lost its striking edge through his previous pronouncements on the subject. The press is also not always proff against the frame of mind which watches without alarm while former hardware tycoons shape our diplomatic fortunes, but which dismisses all social thinking by scientists as fuzzy and fruitless, by definition. But while these considerations partly account for the failure of the press to do handstands, undoubtedly the biggest enthusiasm-quencher was the Committee's urgent insistence that all nations transfer some of their sovereignty to a central body...
Arrested the following day at the corner of Bay and Franklin Streets while attempting to sell the stolen timepiece, Farrell tossed it down a sewer when approached by police officers. Efforts at recovery have proved fruitless...
Fantasy & Insight. Handsome, bush-bearded Scot Macdonald was born in 1824 of a line of Aberdeenshire Calvinists. His father, a hard-tender, humorous man, reared his son with Presbyterian rigor-forbidding him to use a saddle until he had mastered riding bareback, advising him "to give over the fruitless game of poetry," exacting his promise to renounce tobacco at the age of 23. After graduating from King's College at Aberdeen, George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future...
...Allied press "affected the Government hierarchy just about as pleasurably as a swift kick in the groin. "And though the people who irritated them most have departed, I'm sure they still hurt all over, and this soreness isn't helped any by the generally fruitless atmosphere in which the conference closed. As a result, the correspondents who stayed behind in Moscow probably face an indeterminate period of aggravated suspicion, noncooperation and stupidly rigorous censorship -a tougher censorship than before...
...Barberton, Ohio, 1,200 employees of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. walked out on strike, explaining that, after more than three months of fruitless bargaining for a new contract, they were suffering from "negotiations fatigue...