Word: vaines
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...convention were to turn to someone who had not gone to the people, then I think that the people would feel that their primary votes had been in vain. It would create a backlash against the primary system. I'll support
...white, stopped to purchase a package of cigarettes at a corner store in Columbia Point, a predominantly black housing project in Boston's Dorchester section. As he returned to his car he was slammed across the head with a baseball bat. Surgeons at Boston City Hospital operated in vain; two days later, tests for brain waves showed none. Salem was dead...
...prisoner searches in vain for the reasons for his arrest and torture. The more he thinks, the more suspicious he becomes of his friends. When he comes out, he decides, he won't talk to anyone. He will live alone, speak about nothing. Later, he will even lose the habit of thinking. That is how you keep another nation an ally of the West...
...peace and love, all the goals of the French Revolution were finally realized, and the sixties could then die in peace (and love). Or so everybody thought...Because--you guessed it again!!--ha, ha, the sixties are back! And I'm not just talking about some vain attempt to stage just another Wood-stock; no, such efforts have been doomed to failure from the outset--look what happened in the early '70s, for instance. You just couldn't get the groups, so you had to settle for poor tonality and a lot of onstage internecine politicking and back-stabbing...
...battle of women as well as monarchs--Mary Stuart, lovely and dignified in her imprisonment, and Elizabeth I, vain, cunning and as jealous of her rival's beauty as of her pretensions to power. In Mary Stuart, the two roles--the personal and political--are as irreconcilable as the two queens. In the end, the woman in each monarch must die to keep the English Protestant succession intact...