Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reconcile these opposites, Dewitt had hit upon the solution. It's all in my head, Dewitt thought. The whole banana, from the Peace Decade to the Me Decade, is contained within my own existence. I am the Walt Whitman of my times, of all times. After years of fruitless searching, Dewitt had ended his quest and a warm feeling spread from the center of his body to his enhausted limbs. Yes, Dewitt...
...heavy artillery; the press gallery loudspeaker rasped an announcement that the President would visit Capitol Hill to lobby the 13 Republican dissidents who opposed his veto. It loosed the press on an instant stampede to the second-floor corridor for a futile wait while the President began a fruitless and ignominious attempt to win a single Senate Republican to his side. Considering the political riches that a President can offer in return, few expected Reagan's failure to persuade even...
Ostensibly, Angel Heart deals with hard-boiled detective Harry Angel's (Mickey Rourke) quest for a long missing crooner Johnny Favorite. Favorite has been absent since his return from World War II, where a head wound left his a vegetable and permanently disfigured. Angel is commissioned in this fruitless search by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert DeNiro) who needs proof of Favorite's death in order to collect collateral from a contract he had with the singer...
These would-be plunderers attempted to steal only one oversized pumpkin, but their efforts were fruitless. Dining hall sleuths tracked the piefilling pilferers, who were apprehended by Swarthmore security...
...then, everyone loves fruitless speculation, especially when the mirage of hope glimmers on the horizon. After all, even the Red Sox can pull it off now and then. So when the mini-summit in Iceland between Reagan and Gorbachev was announced, a universal gasp of optimism went up: maybe this year something would actually happen...