Word: vaines
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...debacle had been building for much of the week, as crowds of concerned shareholders camped outside MMM's building, waiting, mostly in vain, for the company to redeem their certificates. Police and Interior Ministry troops stood guard to intimidate potential troublemakers. There weren't many. The few lucky enough to exchange their shares for cash stumbled out of the building, with cardboard boxes and plastic bags bulging with rubles, to shouts from the assembled crowd: "Is there any money left?" A few yelled imprecations on Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and central bank chairman Viktor Gerashenko, but many were simply philosophical...
Even on "Out of Tears," a ballad that sounds like it was meant for Top 40 stations across the nation, the Stones can't seem to muster the wrenching desperateness that made "Love in Vain" a slow staple. Luckily, the next song, "I Go Wild," comes to the rescue by managing to pick up a bit of the brashness of the "If You Can't Rock Me." This song also supplies a quick and non incongrous breath of "Gimme Shelter" from Ron Woods' b-bender guitar, two-thirds of the way through...
...camp west of Goma, Adrien Ntahobari, 12, sits with his niece Florinne, 6. They sob together. "I lost my mother. I don't know where she is," says the boy. The day before, the children had wandered for hours through the vast crowds looking for her in vain. They returned at nightfall to sleep in the open, curled up together in - Adrien's oversize sweater. "I am hungry and my head is hurting," he says, wiping flies from his swollen eyes. Neither child has eaten in two days, and Adrien is running a high fever, probably from malaria...
Disclaimer: It's not 'cool' to gush about anything anymore, especially Harvard. Maybe we're all just plain scared of appearing vain, and so don't talk it up. More probably, we just want to fit in, and so never act so happy to be here that it seems we don't belong...
...major, commanding a battalion of the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy on D-day that fought in vain for six weeks to contain the British beachhead north of Caen...