Word: fruitlessness
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Attempts at settling the Palestinian problem through conventional Arab armies in four fruitless wars and through international forums such as the U.N. and talks in Geneva have not solved the Palestinian refugee diaspora. The 1967 Arab defeat was the final blow that showed these embittered Palestinians that conventional Arab warfare was not an effective means by which to promote their cause, and that they must resort to independent commando action to make that cause audible...
...Democratic Leader Aldo Moro dead? Or was he alive-perhaps only briefly reprieved from the death sentence that his captors claim to have passed down on him? While police and soldiers continued to search cars at roadblocks across the country, the government threw thousands of specialized troops into a fruitless search for his body. Then, after receiving the second communiqué-as well as a new letter from Moro pleading for his life-Premier Giulio Andreotti and his colleagues once again faced the question of whether to negotiate with the kidnapers or stand firm in their resolve that there would...
...effort to alleviate our frustration we have made symbolic but relatively fruitless gestures, such as technological support that is not backed by the training necessary for the technology to work...
...testimony to a well-orchestrated collection of half-truths, dissembling statements and outright lies. At the very least,it is now definitively established that ITT officials covertly funneled some $350,000 in corporate funds to right wing opponents of the late Dr. Allende in the fall of 1970, a fruitless operation carried out with the advice...
...Thursday you may think that the so-far-fruitless quest is getting overly long, but it is an instant compared to the New York run of The Fantasticks. You can see this play Thursday night, or Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday night, at Stage 2 in the Charles Playhouse. You may also want to see Much Ado About Nothing Wednesday or Friday at 8 p.m. at the Boston Shakespeare Company Theater, located at the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Boston...