Word: vaines
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...controlled by Phalangist and National Liberal militiamen. The heaviest fire was concentrated on East Beirut, where both Gemayel's and Chamoun's headquarters went up in flames. "This is genocide against the Christians of Lebanon," protested Chamoun. Lebanese Foreign Minister Fuad Butros rushed to Damascus in a vain attempt to arrange a ceasefire. But Syria's tough Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas responded: "The Syrian army will strike with an iron fist to destroy the Phalangist and Chamounist gangs." Asserted Radio Damascus: "Syria is impartial. We fight lawless elements within the Christian community just as we fought...
...gulf between Carter and the union leaders has been especially wide and deep since the President met with AFL-CIO Chief George Meany several weeks ago and tried-in vain-to sweet-talk him into supporting a general wage hold-down. As a union official who attended that White House session told TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik: "Carter came in with his little sermonette, and when we did not accept everything he said, he stopped listening to us. He should realize that meetings like these are not Sunday school...
...audience. He spoke scathingly of America's intoxication with "habitual extreme safety and well-being "; its devotion to the letter of the law, which paralyzes the country's ability "to defend itself against the corrosion of evil"; the absorption of the Western press with "gossip, nonsense, vain talk...
...held a high Government post. Simon indeed prides himself on speaking out with all the exuberance of an Alger hero, and although it was always rumored that he was on the brink of being fired, he managed to survive. As Richard Nixon's energy czar, he hoped, in vain, to preside over the liquidation of his own empire. He writes, "There is nothing like becoming an economic planner oneself to learn what is desperately, stupidly wrong with such a system...
...with lacerating indifference. Sonya (Marti Maraden), Vanya's niece, has adored Dr. Astrov (Brian Bedford) for six years, and he has never been aware of it for six seconds. Astrov in turn lusts for Elena, and lust is within commuting distance of love, but again it is in vain...