Word: fruitlessly
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...outcome of this fruitless face-saving is a silly tale of the undoing of little Poppy, who is fresh out of a Swiss finishing school, looks and acts it. She has an affair with Doc Omar. This upsets Sir Guy, who is still more upset when he discovers that Mother Gin Sling is his Chinese wife, whom he had long thought dead. That disclosure makes the slightly tarnished Poppy behave so badly that her mother shoots her dead, and everyone goes home...
...blacked-out London the pinch of milkless, eggless, fruitless days began to twist morals out of shape. While public morale rode high, by last week many a Londoner had relaxed his usually rigid code of personal honor sufficiently to treat Government war restrictions in much the same way that the mass of U.S. citizens treated Prohibition. It looked as though game-loving Britons were inclined to think that outwitting the Government was a sporting proposition...
...retaken Libya, he planned a rapid attack, quick withdrawal, reattack. In operation he found that he could not move his big forces as quickly as he had moved his small forces. Supply complications and intertwining of forces tangled up the plan. It failed, and after a few days' fruitless fighting the attempt was abandoned...
...gone on between Army and Government for control of the nation. Their usual point of conflict: Japan's role in the world. Three Cabinets in four years of war have fallen because of foreign policy. Last week the fourth tottered. The strain of more than a month of fruitless U.S.-Japanese conversations was telling. In Japan the conviction grew that the U.S. was neatly outsmarting Prince Konoye, that the U.S. was wasting Japan's oil, spinning out the talks for days, for weeks, endlessly...
After long, nearly fruitless years of laboring among the heathen, the Navy's No. 1 apostle of lighter-than-aircraft, Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, last week had hope of a new U.S. air fleet. At the Navy's LTA station at Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought...