Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington failed to get all the information it had to its field commanders. Efforts of subordinate officers to have such information sent out were unavailing. Two men were singled out by the Army Board for their fruitless but "aggressive" attempts to improve handling of intelligence. They were Colonel R. S. Bratton and Colonel Otis K. Stadtler (both still colonels...
...Fruitless Search. In the years which followed, many another prospector searched for the site of the Lost Cabin. None ever found it. But in the early 1880s John Brognard Okie, a son of President Lincoln's physician, came to Wyoming, resolved to turn the Lost Cabin country into a different kind of bonanza. He began running sheep along cottonwood-shaded Badwater Creek and in the high mountain meadows beyond...
...leased his house, and agreed to let him stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
Hollow and False Church? His work in this cause was vigorous but fruitless. In 1939 there was little friendship even among the churches themselves...
Street Scene. In Kansas City, a labor picket, tiring of his eight months' fruitless vigil, knocked off for some deep-sea fishing off California, was treated to a farewell party by friends he had acquired...