Word: vaines
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...Once the Canadians regained the lead, they played more conservatively and kept a forward back, while the U.S. tried in vain to get the pack past St. Pierre. In one startling sequence on the power play, St. Pierre stopped several shots in succession while sprawled across the crease, including a Mleczko shot from point-blank range...
...seems, my sacrifice may have been in vain. According to a study published in the latest issue of the medical journal Lancet, thick high heels may be just about as bad for your legs as ravishing but reedy stilettos. Researchers found that while women who wore stick-thin heels were more likely to develop problems in their feet, including tendinitis and bone deformities, women who pulled on thick heels were more likely than their more fashionable brethren to develop serious and potentially debilitating knee problems...
...emperor, as part of the process of expanding and consolidating China's borders, had also restricted trade with the Western powers to a small perimeter outside the city walls of Canton. The British chafed at this limitation, and sought a wider zone of commercial operations. They also sought, in vain, to pressure the Chinese into accepting Western norms of law, both with respect to the law of the sea and to protection of property and persons...
...vain enough to think I could come into this 350-year-old history and make things alright in a short time," he added...
...have to forgive Gerhard Schroeder for feeling a little like Galileo on yet another vain mission to convince the clergy that the sun is the center of our universe. The German chancellor met President George W. Bush Thursday to discuss, among other things, global warming - a topic on which the U.S. leader is seen in the wider world as something of a flat-earther. And he reported after the meeting that they'd held a candid discussion but failed to agree over President Bush's decision to back out of the Kyoto Accord on climate change endorsed last year...