Word: vaines
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...arranging Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger's first, secret trip to China last July. India was shaken by Washington's sudden gesture toward its traditional enemies, the Chinese, with whom it had fought a brief war in 1962. Behind the scenes, many State Department officials urged in vain that the Government take a harder line toward Yahya, for humanitarian as well as practical political reasons...
...View from Washington. Mrs. Meir had ample opportunity to state her position last week. There was a three-hour luncheon with Secretary of State William Rogers and Assistant Secretary Joseph Sisco, followed by a two-hour meeting alone with Nixon in the Oval Office. Once again, she asked-in vain for the time being-for the phantom Phantoms, which Washington has refused since spring to deliver, on the grounds that the planes would upset the military balance in the Middle East...
...Desert. He calls her Mara, which, he says, is what the Israelites called the bitter water they found in the desert. (Mara is also the name of the tempter of the Buddha.) She, along with every other woman in the movie, is portrayed as evil; all are vain, selfish, deceitful. There is only one exception, a midget, who is childish and faithful like...
...substance with Richard Nixon on national security, and his rhetoric is laced heavily with law-and-order. Yet he stands foursquare with Hubert Humphrey on civil rights. He is for the ABM and the SST, and is considered by some the candidate of the military-industrial community. Yet the vain suit to stop the Amchitka blast was filed under his Environmental Policy Act. Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the junior Senator from the state of Washington, is, in sum, a bundle of divergent views, who at the same time conveys a solid image, a thoughtful integrity. This week he will become...
...shaver. Big deal. Oh brother, this is terrible . . . I give Dave my stereo and tapes." Then he settles his debts: "I got Dick's money on the table, ten bucks that I owe him, and got my settlement with Dave here on the table." Then he tries in vain to explain his imminent suicide: "Well actually, the real reason is that I really don't know...