Word: vaines
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Begot of nothing but vain fantasy...
...student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike that followed it marked a startling new beginning for students at this school--proof that students can make themselves heard, even in the massive bureaucracy at the center...
...Meeting in Geneva, the OPEC nations raised the price of crude oil by 9%-and that was the good news. The bad news was that they agreed to allow members to add whatever surcharges "they deem justifiable." Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, who had argued in vain against the surcharge, predicted that the move could cause a "free-for-all" in the world oil market...
...with the Baghdad regime to gain a favorable settlement of a boundary dispute. As part of the deal, he cut off supplies to the Kurds and closed his border to the retreating rebels. Kurdish Leader Moustafa Barzani, who died in Washington early this month at age 86, pleaded in vain for continued American help...
...brace yourself for those film clips of frigid handshakes at the gates of bleak factories, with candidates snorting white steam from mouths and nostrils, of flinty, numb voters nodding vacantly at vacant campaign promises; of parka-encased reporters up to their knees in snow, watching and waiting in vain for a phrase or a glance that will rise above the level of the completely forgettable...