Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draw up carefully thought out position papers that would dominate the debate. Others in the city soon began to realize that unless a way were found for White to draw the limelight with stimulating and exciting ideas, he would be left without a positive role, and relegated to a fruitless battle against Mrs. Hicks' emotional chirpings...
...World Series that has seen the big stars come through to make the difference finally found a little hero. Bad Boy Ken Harrelson, who's been making enemies in Boston for over a month with his aimless glove and fruitless bat, saved Lonborg with a brilliant catch of Lou Brock's drive in the first and gave him what was his only run for most of the ball game...
Aware that the less attractive Siberian elm is highly resistant to Dutch elm disease, scientists have long attempted to mate it with its American cousin in an effort to produce offspring both disease-resistant and beautiful. Their efforts have been fruitless so far, probably because Siberian elm cells have only half the number of heredity-bearing chromosomes found in the cells of their American cousins. To make the elms compatible, two retired Department of Agriculture scientists, Geneticist Haig Dermen, 71, and Plant Pathologist Curtis May, 70, decided to experiment with colchicine-an antigout drug that has a peculiar effect...
...comes to a conference with what seems to be its present position on the future of South Vietnam--a withdrawal of all North Vietnamese troops to be followed by peace within South Vietnam on the Saigon government's terms--it is obvious that it will be a brief and fruitless conference. Neither Washington nor Hanoi would have anything to discuss...
Actually, most of SDS's work is done indoors, and is far less dramatic. Regular members have come to expect the same bureaucratic problems that beset Harvard's less radical organizations, and the group's meetings are often long and fruitless...