Word: fruitlessness
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...Dartmouth players that did come to Cambridge must have known that it would be fruitless to run the ball against a Crimson squad that had crushed the Green--even with 25 points from Lawrence--by 21 in Hanover earlier this season...
...rented car reached Hartford, however, a jittery Murphy decided he had to check the trunk to see if in fact the trio had remembered to bring the broadcast equipment. The trunk was empty, at least as regards to mixers and microphones. A very upset trio decided it would be fruitless to return to Cambridge for the equipment, and so continued to Philadelphia--home of Pat's cheese steaks and other culinary favorites--in hopes of securing what they needed from the Penn radio station, WXPN. When they arrived in the City of Brotherly Love and managed to seek out Penn...
Walton has subsequently charged in a lawsuit that the Trail Blazers' doctor injected him with pain-killing drugs to enable him to play, thus aggravating his injury. A long and fruitless rehabilitation began...
...huge financial transaction, which caused hardly a ripple on the world's money markets, demonstrated the ability of bankers and lawyers to use their amazing network of modern communications. After 14 months of mostly fruitless negotiations, the deal was concluded in less than ten minutes. -By Alexander Taylor...
...snail's pace of the University's bureacruatic channels, and when Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, suggested to some at the sit-in that they bring their plan before the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), they pointed out that avenue had already proved fruitless...