Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yesterday's meeting, the committee considered only Hatfield's amendment. The session, which followed several fruitless meetings last week when the panel could not draw a quorum, lasted for 30 minutes, with Hatfield and Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.) squaring off in the committee room...
Whatever the outcome of the NCAAs, Goldring said yesterday that the season has not been "totally fruitless." The performance of the younger swordsmen, notably freshmen Merner and Heyman, highlighted the season, he added...
...asking a malignant tumor what makes it grow. It simply cannot behave otherwise. The same is true of Communism; driven by a malevolent and irrational instinct for world domination, it cannot help seizing ever more lands. Communism is something new, unprecedented in world history; it is fruitless to seek analogies. All warnings to the West about the pitiless and insatiable nature of Communist regimes have proved to be in vain because the acceptance of such a view would be too terrifying. (Did not the Afghan tragedy in fact take place two years ago? But the West shut its eyes...