Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are holding a highly-touted meeting today, but after 11 fruitless months, there's no reason to expect much to come out of their meeting. The decision for peace in Vietnam is ours. Congress should cut off aid to Thieu...
...February 6. "It is fruitless to speculate at the future," he said...
With strong gale sweeping across the field, Harvard coach Bruce Munro chose to take the backing of the wind during the first half. Harvard dominated the first half with numerous scoring opportunities that remained fruitless. The Williams defense was tested but a rough and physical game by the Ephmen kept Harvard from scoring...
...been conducting negotiations. Totally exasperated by the terrorists' conduct, the Kuwait authorities thereupon surrounded the plane with 100 police and a dozen armored cars. The gunmen were finally cowed and meekly surrendered, giving up their four Saudi hostages unharmed and ending their bizarre, fruitless odyssey...
...this fruitless ambiguity is made worse by the realistic tone of the narration, which is totally at odds with the content. George Orwell persuades us easily in Animal Farm that beasts talk, but Berger fails to establish a mood in which it is believable that larger and stronger men cower before swaggering women, and that an entire society has lost all knowledge of normal...