Word: vaines
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...self-titled 2003 CD. But the mission of the young artist-who lost her mother, aunt and grandmother to breast cancer-was her war on the disease. On her website, she recently told fans: "I have not lost this battle, because I know the fight was not in vain...
...self-titled 2003 CD. But the mission of the young artist--who lost her mother, aunt and grandmother to breast cancer--was her war on the disease. On her website, she recently told fans: "I have not lost this battle, because I know the fight was not in vain...
...only a couple of seconds left. I squeeze the trigger-"gently," says my instructor, Peter, "so it's a surprise when the gun goes off." Bang! The rifle kicks back into my shoulder, there's a sudden reek of gunpowder, and my focus flies forward as I try (in vain) to follow the bullet to the target. "I think you winged him," Peter says...
...being pushed out to make way for the class of 2010. I wasn’t jealous of the prefrosh, it was more of an acute sense of frustration: just when I finally figured this place out, it’s time to move on. In perhaps a vain attempt to spare others this frustration, I have complied a list of 10 things I wish I learned sooner (to the extent that I ever really learned them). As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass...
...which they believe in, so they're willing to continue to sacrifice until those aims are met. That's why Lincoln's address at Gettysburg was so central. It gave people, in such soaring language, the idea that these young men who had died had not died in vain. In World War II, there was a consensus over what had to be done in fighting Hitler and fascism. Now people are not sure why we're fighting [in Iraq]. All of these things lessen support, as we see month by month, and will make it much harder for the President...