Word: fruitlessness
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...than answer criminal charges stemming from both episodes, Mark Rudd went underground. For seven years his face peered stonily from WANTED posters across the country. A special squad of FBI agents-up to 35 at one point-shadowed his friends, tapped their phones and examined their mail in a fruitless hunt for Rudd and other fugitive firebrands...
...Koreagate investigation suddenly lurched forward last week. Former Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, 71, who was appointed counsel to the House ethics committee in July, held his first meeting with the panel and declared bluntly, "I advise those who may believe that the investigation will blow over or prove fruitless to take a closer look." Then, threatening a contempt citation, he got close-mouthed Girl-About-Town Suzi...
FROM THE beginning of the film, we are aware that the search for El Dorado will be fruitless. The only question is whether the conquistadors will be able to survive the river, the Indians' arrows, and their own selfishness, from the time we realize the small band cannot turn back, the ending is inevitable. The film becomes a study in despair, the voyage an absurd gesture, until at last there is only Aguirre, ranting about his future greatness to an audience of dead men as his drifting raft is overrun by small monkeys...
When Marshall rose to read his speech, the war had long since been won, but not the peace. By early 1947 Soviet adventurism had inspired the Truman Doctrine, with its pledge of military help to any free people threatened by Communist aggression. By April, after a long and fruitless foreign ministers' conference in Moscow, the U.S. Government abandoned all expectations of obtaining cooperation from the Russians-even in balming the wounds of war let alone in fashioning a new world order. In Asia, China was on the verge of falling to Mao. Of most concern to Americans, however...
Most people around here found it was muggy enough Sunday to limit their desire for exercise to hunting down an air-conditioned library, a rather fruitless exercise for those...