Word: fruitlessly
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Rhee had good reason to fear the malice of invaders. For 43 years, Korea had been under the rule of another foreign nation, Japan, and Rhee, as President of Korea's government in exile, had spent most of this time fighting a fruitless campaign for recognition. Before that, he had endured brutal torture and seven years in prison for demanding a constitutional democracy from Korea's last Emperor. In his years of exile, he had acquired an M.A. from Harvard, a Ph.D. from Princeton, an Austrian wife, and the respect of both his own people and many Americans...
...European Free Trade Association's final internal tariff reductions go into effect, to be followed six months afterward by those of the Common Market, and the worry is that trade patterns will become so set within the blocs that attempts to join them will be increasingly fruitless...
...Gemini capsule failed, however, in its attempt to rendezvous with the burned-out second stage of the huge Titan II rocket which propelled it into orbit. The rendezvous was called off after McDivitt and White burned half their fuel in fruitless pursuit of the tumbling booster...
...Dramatic Club constitution. The sequence was inevitable; people have been thinking about Harvard theatre in terms of power and politics for half a dozen years now. But while the issues discussed last week were familiar the tone of the debate suggests they have lost their old appeal, that the fruitless controversy over Faculty control of the Loeb...
...liberal-minded St. Louis Post Dispatch, "but the truth is that we are risking world war in Southeast Asia for no sound national purpose at all. The new exchange of strikes simply emphasizes the bankruptcy of American policy. Our basic purpose ought to be to disengage from a fruitless and seemingly endless conflict by seeking a political instead of a military settlement...