Word: vaines
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...Chrissake, Dad," Crlo said, and immediately knew he had made amistake. In his family Lou was the only one allowed to take the Lord's Name in vain--it was like a franchise, Carlo knew and you can get in a lot of trouble by messing around with franchises. "I mean, for Pete's sake," he corrected, "it's not that bad. I mean, there are lots of good people here, too. They have these clubs where you can go and it's nice as hell, I mean heck, all you have to do is know somebody in there...
...clearly got into the spirit of the thing: as they downed their scrambled eggs and muffins, the demonstrators chanted "We want it hot" and pounded their knives and forks on the tables. After breakfast, the group marched to University Hall, where its representatives entered the building in a vain attempt to confront Dean Fox with their demands...
...must never forget that sooner or later grand avenues will be opened where free men will march on to build a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! These are my last words, and I am certain the sacrifice will not be in vain...
...Germans in 1940, Braudel chafed in a prisoner of war camp at Lübeck. He sustained himself by teaching other inmates (and occasionally playing pranks, like painting a pigeon's wings with the red. white and blue tricolor and then setting it loose, provoking a vain fusillade from German guards). He sustained himself too by a great feat of memory-writing The Mediterranean, filling up and mailing out one schoolboy copybook after another. "I had to believe that history, destiny, was written at a much more profound level," recalls Braudel of those years. "So it was that...
Radcliffe took numerous power tens during the first half mile in a vain attempt to get themselves out of the treacherous water, but it was to no avail. "We wanted to be with them to make a move on them in that third mile--but after that wake, they were gone," Strong said...