Word: fruitlessness
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...luck that the tomb of Tutankhamun, pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 B.C., escaped the predations of grave robbers over the millenniums. Largely luck too that British Archaeologist Howard Carter found the royal tomb in 1922 after 15 years of fruitless searching through the sere Valley of the Kings. Perhaps the timing was also lucky when J. Carter Brown, director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, began negotiating with Egyptian authorities in 1974 for a U.S. showing of the tomb's contents: a wave of pro-American feeling was just sweeping Cairo. In any case, millions...
Schneider characterized Carter's reorganization hopes as "fruitless... but it's his thing...
After months of fruitless effort to bring peace to strife-ridden Lebanon, Syria last week upped the ante with a massive military intervention in an all-out attempt to enforce a long-elusive Pax Syriana. Instead of calming the situation, the move at first brought Damascus into bloody conflict with its erstwhile ally, the Palestinian guerrilla movement, and forced it into an unwanted, possibly only temporary, compromise in which other Arab states are sending token forces into Lebanon...
...with advances from another man. The role is "en costume," notes Sylvia primly, and "the audience will have to wait a full 40 minutes before I give in." Viewers of future Kristel movies may be kept waiting too, but the titles suggest that it won't be a fruitless vigil. After finishing Femme, she will film The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, a murder mystery featuring Peter Fonda, Michael York and Orson Welles. Later she will star in Madame Bovary, which will be directed by Hugo Claus, 47, the father of her son Arthur, 15 months...
Pound for pound, of course, the midget wrestlers are the strongest and most proficient in the business. It would be a fruitless intellectual exercise to speculate about which of these spunky little fellows could outdistance a normal human in a physical competition. Sky Lo Lo, Little Brutus, The Jamaican Kid, and a dozen others are arm wrestling champs in their own home districts. Others, less proficient in their sport, have had to humble themselves in the off-season by working on circus side shows, collecting disability insurance (achondroplasm, legally, is a disability), or working in the kind of factories whose...