Word: vaines
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...Wesleyan Cardinals left the Crimson booters longing for home yesterday, handing Harvard its second consecutive away-game defeat, 2-1. The visitors dug themselves into an early hole with a pair of defensive lapses and then had to struggle for the remainder of the contest in a vain attempt to catch...
...other famous men she has met. Among them: Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and former President Richard Nixon, all of whom sat down to dinner with the actress one night. Reports Liv: "Gromyko is pale, but blushes every time his name is mentioned. Brezhnev looks vain, but I like him immediately when he takes my hand and says he loves The Emigrants. Nixon's makeup is melting, and I feel sorry for him. He would have made a marvelous tragic figure in a Bergman film, had he been a better actor...
...history of this bright, vain man is diverting. Not many people are truly fond of banks, or of prisons, and it is fun to watch Sutton deflate their institutional dignity. It would be even more fun if he spoke with his own voice. Unhappily, his book is one of those first-person ghostwriting dilutions that make Masaichieftains, subliterate footballers, and Brooklyn bank robbers sound as if they were serving ten years to life in journalism school...
...April, Elder Statesman Benjamin Franklin advised a friend: "Nothing seems wanting but that 'general consent.' The novelty of the thing [independence] deters some, the doubts of success, others, the vain hope of reconciliation, many. But our enemies take continually every proper measure to remove these obstacles, and their endeavors are attended with success, since every day furnishes us with new causes of increasing enmity, and new reasons for wishing an eternal separation...
...match for well-trained European troops. Reflecting a general sentiment, the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, says that the Americans are "raw, undisciplined, cowardly men." For lack of volunteers to fight what many consider a civil war, however, the government has turned abroad, first, and in vain, to Russia, then to Britain's traditional allies in northern Germany. Nearly 18,000 mercenaries were hired earlier this year (at an initial cost of about ? 128,000 plus annual subsidies of ,?125,000) from the German principalities of Brunswick, Hesse-Cassel and Hanau. More than 16,000 have...