Word: fruitlessly
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...going well: "I'm almost glad it happened because it's given me a second life. I laugh and enjoy things so much more." However, the cancer had spread to her brain and her liver from her lymph nodes. On Wednesday, after deciding that further medical treatment would be fruitless, she went home. She died the evening after. This week she is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband and her son Patrick...
...sanctions might have some sort of positive effect, however small, if Haiti were the only nation on the island of Hispanola and could be blockaded by U.S. warships. But the shared border with the Dominican Republic makes the sanctions essentially fruitless, except for smugglers...
Harvard's final inning at the plate proved fruitless as the Bears put them away three-up-three-down. The mesmerized Crimson returned to the dugout with a 6-5 loss...
...attempt[t to uncover the latest Whitewater scandal appears fruitless. And yet, a reporter of my caliber--one who discovered nothing less than the trend of jester hats at Harvard--cannot rest there. Indeed, I had another lead...
...Norway's best-loved sportsman and its choice to take the Olympic athlete's oath. An American reporter reduced him to tears at a press conference by asking about the impact on his training of his brother Ketil's disappearance while jogging last October and of Vegard's fruitless search for the body, lost in snow at least until the spring thaw...