Word: fruitlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helmsmen, Jim Hardy of the Southern Cross and Dennis Conner, who handled strictly the starts on Courageous--relinquishing the command to sailmaker Ted Hood the rest of the way--attempted a seemingly fruitless game of staying on the other's tail in order to force the opponent up over the line early...
...modernize their countries' technologies while shoring up their crumbling social systems--a decision like the one the United States would make later on, when it decided to help developing countries' governments modernize their economies and suppress their people's revolts. In the long run, the fascists' effort proved as fruitless as the Trottas' family pride. But that didn't help Roth--who died in 1939--or people destroyed by the attempt...
Making pre-season predictions in the topsyturvy Ivy League is inevitably a fruitless task. About the only sure bet every fall is that Dartmouth will finish first. Each year four or five well-balanced teams take a run at the Indians, but somehow the Big Green always manages to come out on top--Dartmouth has captured at least a share of the Ivy crown every year since 1969, incluing three outright championships. In the last two years, four teams have had a shot at the title going into the last two weeks of the season, but Dartmouth has pulled...
...less than an hour after the breakdown of peace talks in Geneva. Günes telephoned Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara to report that Greece would not accede to Turkish demands that the island be partitioned into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, and that the talks were fruitless. Almost immediately Radio Ankara signaled the code words: "TYK in Force," meaning start the assault. Within minutes, Turkish jets were over Famagusta and Nicosia, making passes in Nicosia's International Airport area and dive-bombing the southwestern part of the city, where the headquarters of the Greek Cypriot National...
...these youths shared "a subliminal or barely articulated knowledge" that, at least for them, the possibility of "'making it' in America had become more fantasy than reality." The nation's unemployment rate (4.4% overall and as high as 17% for teenagers) makes the struggle seem fruitless to those unwilling or unable to put in the rigorous educational apprenticeships now needed even for ordinary jobs. Many youths therefore give up, drop out, and become hobos before they are yet old enough to vote...