Word: vain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist drive down the center of Korea's waist broke all contact between the Eighth Army and General Almond's X Corps, sprawled out over northeastern Korea. At the Changjin reservoir, Major General Oliver Prince Smith's 1st Marine Division had made a vain try to cut in behind the Chinese attacking the Eighth. Now Smith's men were attacked by ten Communist divisions, which threw an iron ring around the reservoir...
Even before Australia II arrived at Newport, its white hull swathed in a modest blue-green canvas skirt, word had spread of the challenger's hidden, revolutionary keel design. The New York Yacht Club tried mightily, ignobly, and in vain to have the foreign boat disqualified. Meanwhile, the wonder from Down Under and its gritty crew blitzed the largest foreign field ever assembled in Newport-six other boats, from France, Italy, Britain, Canada and Australia. In two months the Australians won 48 of the 54 times they set sail. And yet, pitted against the New York Yacht Club...
...aging, of the helplessness of the poor and the unlucky to alter the course of their lives. "Distressed gentlewoman" is a phrase that echoes sadly through her writing. The Sweet Dove Died-an exception among her novels, since neither clergymen nor anthropologists figure in it-is about a vain, middle-aged beauty who drives out her tenant, Miss Foxe, an ancient who lugs buckets of paraffin up several flights of stairs to heat her top-floor flat. In Quartet in Autumn, Pym's bleakest and most critically acclaimed book, two women and two men who share an office regard...
...incidents like last week's will multiply. Then the resolve required to follow a moderate course will crumble and the unthinkable will be possible--whether through accident or intent. A warning has indeed been sounded. Now we must insure that those on board flight 007 did not die in vain...
This past July, ECAC Commissioner Scotty Whitelaw called a meeting of the two factions, trying--in vain--to heal the rift. Relations between the groups have turned adversarial, with little talk since the meeting...