Word: fruitlessness
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After several fruitless years of visiting specialists, my husband and I have little sympathy for the Finkbines...
...inspiring that Congress found time in a rushed and often fruitless session to come out for God. Pressing legislation may be complicated and expensive, but God, like antiCommunism, is simple enough...
...actually been born closer to the Kremlin than to Memorial Church. Shortly after accepting President Truman's call to return from China (where he had been ambassador) and become Secretary of State, Marshall led the American delegation to the 'Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in April 1947. After a fruitless meeting with Stalin and Molotov in private, Marshall was convinced that the Soviet Union was stalling in European recovery action, that Europe needed help fast, and that only the West could and would provide that help. Piecemeal aid to Greece and Turkey-- the "Truman Doctrine" of 1946-7 not only failed...
...grand jury in Franklin, Texas, was discharged after five fruitless weeks of investigating the 1961 shooting of Agriculture Department Official Henry H. Marshall, who had been investigating some of Estes' manipulations. Although Marshall was shot five times by a bolt-action rifle, the grand jury said the evidence it had heard was "inconclusive to substantiate a different decision at this time or to override any decision heretofore made." That meant, improbable as it might seem, that the suicide finding by a local justice of the peace would stand...
...actually been born closer to the Kremlin than to Memorial Church. Shortly after accepting President Truman's call to return from China (where he had been ambassador) and become Secretary of State, Marshall led the American delegation to the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in April 1947. After a fruitless meeting with Stalin and Molotov in private, Marshall was convinced that the Soviet Union was stalling in European recovery action, that Europe needed help fast, and that only the West could and would provide that help. Piecemeal aid to Greece and Turkey--the "Truman Doctrine" of 1946-7--not only failed...