Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three bosses of the Red-wired electrical workers-President Albert Fitzgerald, Julius Emspak, James Matles-made the same fruitless overtures. Big Joe Curran, an ex-party-liner himself, boss of the maritime union and one of Murray's chief aides, chortled: "It used to be when Jim Matles walked in the room, we all stood up. Now we don't even let him in the room." This was not quite correct: Murray did let him in, and listened before waving...
...customs garrison replied in kind, and for two months the fusillade continued back & forth across the frontier. Then the Yemeni built a small fort to improve their position. After a fruitless exchange of diplomatic protests, Aden's British government dropped a few smoke-bombs near the fort. The Yemeni sat tight. A fortnight later the British dropped real bombs, and Yemen's new fort was flattened. But no one was hurt, because the British had considerately informed the Yemeni of their plans well ahead of time and the fort's garrison of 20-odd stalwarts had prudently...
...Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
...momentary confusion; Malik's letter was written in Russian. Aides found a translator. Finally, Jessup got on the telephone. He passed the word to Cadogan and Chauvel that Malik had agreed to meet with them. The first meeting of Four Power spokesmen since last winter's fruitless discussions in Geneva on the subject of the Berlin blockade was set for 12:30 the next...
...intelligent faculty guidance and if it did not have to pay high rental fees (for both rehearsal space and an auditorium)--two handicaps the University could endeavor to remove--there is little doubt but that the past few years would not have been so fruitless and bitter for the Club...