Word: vaines
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...from their subject, but the cries of these letter-writers, loud and agonizing, force Miss Lonelyhearts to become immersed in his. Originally a means of advancing his career and increasing his paper's circulation, the column he writes serves finally as a conduit for personal tragedy; awakened to a vain search for an antidote to life's cruelty. Nathaniel West's tormented protagonist inevitably discovers that he too is "a victim of the joke, not its perpetrator...
Former Professor Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who searched in vain for the government department game in his chauffer-driven black Cadillac limousine, consoled the defeated Harvardians with champagne and smoked salmon later that afternoon. But Harvard's Government department cannot drink away the defeat to which they are so unaccustomed...
About midway through the half, the Elis started to mount an offensive attack. At 28:03, Yale forward Bill Edelson scored when he swiped the ball from Crimson goalie Fred Herold as Herold dived in vain after an errant backpass...
Most of the candidates seemed to be aware of the degree of commitment, both present and future, involved in the positions for which they were running, mostly in vain...
...their hostage go. As the deadly risk to Herrema mounted, Irish public opinion was increasingly divided. Initially, Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave's hard-line refusal to compromise was widely approved. Now it is feared that if the kidnapers were killed with their hostage after vain attempts to make a deal, they might become instant martyrs to the I.R.A. cause...