Word: fruitlessly
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Both Radcliffe and Harvard water polo teams, all set for their titanic clash last night, found themselves without a pool in which to hold the contest. All attempts to find a tank proved fruitless and plans for the meet had to be temporarily abandoned...
...Philadelphia last week, like the seesawing rubbernecks at a tennis match, eyes kept shifting from the Scoreboard clock to the field. Mighty Army was trailing Pennsylvania, 20-19, and there was less than a minute to play. Army's cool, spindle-legged Quarterback Arnold Galiffa called one fruitless off-tackle smash, one pass that went incomplete. Then he eyed the clock, too. Thirty-five seconds left...
...Strike Him?" After an hour of fruitless questioning, the major asked Pirogov whether he had given any thought to his family back in Russia. "I object!" an American officer put in heatedly. "That's coercion." "What do you mean, coercion?" the MVD man replied in an injured tone. "Did I strike him?" After an hour's argument over what constituted coercion, the major was finally allowed to ask whatever he wanted. He drew a blank...
...Truman's surprise and dismay, Marshall flatly opposed it. The foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France had just finished eight weeks of fruitless talks with Stalin and Molotov. Marshall, at that very moment, was doing his best to reassure Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman of the consistency of U.S. diplomacy. The U.S., for example, had said it would not negotiate with Russia as long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look...
...must also be prepared to expect the same from Russia in Czechoslovakia and in Poland. Any discussions must begin with acceptance, however regretful, that the Russians just now have as much right in Prague as we have in Rome. Making the best of existing conditions, we must abandon the fruitless line of condemnation and recrimination, and start to deal honestly in terms of solutions rather than verdicts...