Word: vaines
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...novel she is writing. It is intended as a heroic celebration of God, with sundry evildoers redeemed at the climax by divine power. Alas, the manuscript, nowhere near completion, is found by a nun during a routine snoop through desks. Nanda's tearful pleas are in vain. Says Reverend Mother: "I have watched something growing in you-a hard little core of self-will and self-love." The gates clang shut...
...repeated instinctively. A woman who had been standing near the Pope told a reporter confidently: "It was a Browning 9." She had heard the sound of shots many times in her native Northern Ireland, to whose warring factions the Pope in September 1979 had made an impassioned but vain plea, "on my knees," for an end to violence...
...disgusted by the New Right's latest tactic: a full-page Crimson advertisement by the National Defeat Legal Services Committee (May 8). I searched in vain for any facts in their propaganda. The legal services program, administered by the Legal Services Corporation, handled 1.5 million legal matters in 1980, benefiting millions of low-income people. Most of the issues involved the areas of consumer law, housing law, administrative benefits and family law. These problems may seem routine, but they are of critical importance to poor people. Over 97 per cent of legal services funds are used for the support...
...Franson remembers twelve years ago, when Memorial was overwhelmingly black. Today Memorial is about 70% Hispanic. A copy of the 1980 yearbook lies open on a table in the art room: Maggie Lopez and Marcos Robles "Best Couple"-and Georgina Araujo and Alfonso Martinez-"Best Hair." One searches in vain for the pair selected "Most Likely to Succeed." There is no such category, only an equivalent called "Standouts...
...looked in vain for children. He couldn't find them anywhere. There were short people and people under twelve years of ago, but they had no child's vulnerability, no unstuck laughter. They cracked into the M2 buses like terrified bison running for their lives, for fear the school at their backs would grab them and eat them up one more time. It wasn't until he caught the downtown A that he saw what they had done with their childhood. They had wrapped it in dark cloth, sneaked it underground and thrown it all over the trains. Like blazing...