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...police lectured their fathers in vain. Once, after the boys broke into an auto-parts store, County Judge George Roane summoned the fathers before him and demanded that they make their sons obey. The fathers shrugged, and the boys carried on as usual. They broke into the Greyhound Bus station, later cracked a food market for candy and change. It was then that Judge Roane decided to invoke a new law. "We decided to try the parents," says he, "not the children...
...blocked the road. Dean ordered the vehicles abandoned, and led the men on foot across country into a bean patch. That night, as they worked their way south into the mountains. Dean dropped behind to get water for a badly wounded man. His aide. Lieut. Arthur Clarke, waited in vain for him to return. Three days later. Clarke and his party reached the American lines...
Blue Hole parents petitioned state officials in vain for a new school. The superintendent said that their problem was "a local affair" and referred them to the county board. The county said that it could not build a new school because there was no land available with a clear title, and the old site on the mountainside was too dangerous. Then, one night, a great storm blew up. Next morning the old schoolhouse was a pile of lumber at the bottom of the creek, and there was still no prospect...
...opponents on the affirmative Roger wood and Charles Parsons, both seniors, tried in vain to persuade the audience that private education on a secondary level created isolated groups with in the community...
...Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." (Psalms...