Word: fruitlessness
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...faint revival of discussion on non-Honors tutorial is all to the good. Ever since the CEP drew up the honors program two years ago and left plans for non-Honors tutorial in tantalizing limbo, discussion on the latter has tended to degenerate into fruitless procrastination...
...Copacabana Palace, Le Bon Gourmet and other nightspots, spending upwards of $200 a night on food, drink and fun. One night he even dined at the home of Colonel Eugenic Castilho Freire, warden of Central Prison, where he had been an honored guest while the officials brought a predictably fruitless deportation case against...
Only next morning when store managers opened up for the day were the raids discovered. Unhappily, Scotland Yardmen, after a week of fruitless investigation, admitted they could only hope for a "snout" -someone who might be tempted into talking by an insurance company reward of $28,000. They admitted, too, to a touch of regret over the new, vice-free state of London's streets. "Those girls always helped us," confided one Yardman. "They were our eyes and ears when we weren't around. This haul couldn't have been made in the bad old days...
Robert Rogers of the Rangers, by John R. Cuneo. An able biography of the New Hampshire farmer who became the backwoods scourge of the French and Indian War, later planned a fruitless search for the Northwest Passage...
Instinctively looking for something solid to lean on, he turned to his master reading list. With rapid, but controlled glances he searched for an oversight. The hunt was fruitless, though, for his check, counter-check system left no room for mistakes. The blame, clearly, lay with Miss Schroeder...