Word: fruitlessness
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Despite flinging 25 shots toward net yesterday, the Harvard men's soccer team failed to score against a tough University of Connecticut squad. But the Huskies were equally fruitless in their attempts to put the ball past Harvard goalie Stephen Hall, as the teams emerged after 110 minutes of battle yesterday in a 0-0 tie at Storrs, Conn...
...peace with the terrorist army and then, as a friendly act, kill them. We will offer martyrdom as a token of good will. Finally after all these years we will be able to put aside our differences and arrive at a mutually benefical conclusion to the many years of fruitless combat...
...aircraft splintered into thousands of pieces over a wide area, most of them afire. Fire fighters and area residents dug ditches to contain the blazes, then began a fruitless search for survivors. "Doctors came, had a look and there was no one to save," said Zagorska. "Hands and legs were hanging from the trees." It was the worst disaster ever for the Polish national airline...
...reconcile these opposites, Dewitt had hit upon the solution. It's all in my head, Dewitt thought. The whole banana, from the Peace Decade to the Me Decade, is contained within my own existence. I am the Walt Whitman of my times, of all times. After years of fruitless searching, Dewitt had ended his quest and a warm feeling spread from the center of his body to his enhausted limbs. Yes, Dewitt...
...heavy artillery; the press gallery loudspeaker rasped an announcement that the President would visit Capitol Hill to lobby the 13 Republican dissidents who opposed his veto. It loosed the press on an instant stampede to the second-floor corridor for a futile wait while the President began a fruitless and ignominious attempt to win a single Senate Republican to his side. Considering the political riches that a President can offer in return, few expected Reagan's failure to persuade even...