Word: vaines
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...would Nixon continue to stonewall? Or would he break under the pressure of so public a forum and the interrogator's grilling? Would he finally do now what he might have done some four years ago: admit with genuine humility that he had conspired with his aides in a vain effort to keep the scandal from destroying his presidency? Or would the politically inexperienced Frost prove a patsy and let Nixon filibuster with those same skillful diversions that always seemed to be answers but never were...
...hero's unrespectable, family. In both stories only the perspective of the younger generation bridges the social gap. The teenaged narrator realizes the imprisoning morality of his home, but because he is both too timid and too wise to rebel against its overprotectiveness, he must watch the vain revolt of the hero...
...Chicago couple suffered the double indignity of being assaulted and robbed when they tried-in vain-to buy back their dog. To discourage ransom demands, animal-welfare officials in San Francisco have stopped giving the phone numbers of pet losers to callers who report finding animals. Instead, the ASPCA relays the information. Tattooed registration numbers on a dog's skin discourage thieves, but the marking should never be put on the dog's ear. Reason: dognapers might cut off the ear and mail it to the owner as proof they have poor Fido...
...good thing here," he says to Itelo, prince of the gentle Arnewi. But in a vainglorious attempt to rid the Arnewi of a plague of frogs, Henderson blows up their only reservoir. They cast him out of their mini-Eden along with his companion Romilayu, who had warned in vain: "Perhaps it better to guide no other than yourself...
...honor without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral ambivalence? Moreover, we first meet him and his elite unit in Warsaw, putting themselves at risk in a vain attempt to rescue a young Jewish woman from the SS. Thus they are immediately established as gallant lads, holding nothing but contempt for deplorable national policies they have, in any case, been too busy on the Russian front to consider very deeply...