Word: vaines
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...Laden, the detainees claimed, did not always get his way. As early as mid-2000, he was so incensed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that he told Mohammed to go ahead with the mission right away. Twice more in 2001, bin Laden pushed in vain for the operation to start. In the end, he did assert ultimate authority in ordering the attacks, over the opposition of senior al-Qaeda officials and Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who were worried that a direct attack on the U.S. would provoke a war with the U.S. or trouble with Pakistan...
Gangsters and GoodFellas is far more freewheeling and ring-a-ding-ding. In a sequel of sorts to the tightly wound Pileggi original, Hill sweeps readers along on a wild ride through the witness-protection program as he tries in vain to fit in after the feds relocate him from New York City's fast lane to slow-as-molasses Hicksville, Ky. ("Kentucky was like a foreign country," he recalls. "They'd speak in that real Appalachian, southern accent. No capiche...
...fire. The Bush Iraq policy lay shattered in tiny pieces; the President seemed crestfallen in his public appearances. Indeed, Kerry's message discipline--broken by occasional, measured responses to reporters' questions about the war--almost seemed a clever way to avoid the issue. His audiences waited in vain for a passionate response to the Iraq debacle...
Dartboard couldn’t avert his eyes as a full foot of flesh (among the three of them) stared him square in the face. Their low-rise jeans, pushed even lower by their vain attempts to fit into clothes evidently sized for their pop idols, were hiked up just enough to show some modesty while standing up. But the mechanics of sitting had changed them into exhibitionists. Dartboard’s eyes were burning...
Shanai T. Watson ’07 said she did not believe that the controversy was in vain...