Word: fruitlessly
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...invasion of China would consume hordes of men and millions of dollars in an operation which . . . would be fruitless. In the battle's midst, the public would sicken of the drain and the campaign would grind to a farcical halt. . . . Using Chiang would be employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East. It would . . . burden this county with the worst sort of albatross...
...last seven years, the keystone of American foreign policy has been the idea of peace through strength. Although realizing that the concept has been fruitless in the past, policy strategists of both parties have thought it necessary to so prepare the West as to render impotent any new Communist aggression. From such a situation of strength, peace could then be negotiated...
Crimson and M.I.T. ruggers spent a fruitless afternoon struggling to a 0 to 0 tie Saturday on the Engineers' home field...
...papal appeal for clemency is grounded on long precedent. As special emissary of Benedict XV in World War I, the present Pope journeyed to Berlin to deliver a fruitless appeal to spare the life of Nurse Edith Cavell. And in 1944, Pius XII again asked the Germans for mercy-and was refused again-in the slaughter of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine caves near Rome. During the Spanish Civil War, Pius XI was successful in persuading General Franco to spare the lives of several Loyalist prisoners...
Last week, after weeks of fruitless argument during which the Vienna police remained adamant, Rudolph moved on to Linz and climbed into his bottle. It was a huge, steel-framed affair, seven feet tall. Taking with him an air mattress, a camp stool and two Syrian snakes "for company," Rudolph entered one side of the bottle. Then arc welders sealed him in, leaving only an 8-in. bottleneck open at the top. For the next year, Rudolph plans to live in bottled luxury on vitamin pills and write his memoirs. And if no one comes to see him? Well...