Word: vaines
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Childish Retribution. The Senate's unexpected action came only four nights after the U.S. had suffered a humiliating defeat in the United Nations, failing to persuade many of the nations that had long enjoyed U.S. financial support to join in the vain fight to keep Taiwan in the U.N. Although the causes were actually complex and long-building, to much of the outside world the Senate's rejection of the Administration's foreign aid bill smacked of childish retribution -the act of a bully lashing out because his shins had been kicked. Leaping to conclusions, the London...
Office appointments stacked up until they sometimes reached an impossible 50 a day. To avoid having patients wait in vain for several hours, he often had those who needed just a routine checkup wait at home. Then he would summon them-occasionally late at night-when an opening in his schedule occurred. He knew that he had too many patients and admits now: "I wasn't strong enough to say no." Nor was he able to find a colleague to share the practice...
...unleashed a Secret Police manhunt which ended with the arrest, imprisonment, or interrogations of dozens of us. During this time Elizabeth was under constant surveillance so that when I arrived in June, 1969, she told me that she was on the point of suicide, that she had made a vain attempt to change the lock on her door to keep the police from searching her apartment and tapping her telephone. It was clear that Brigitte's escape had closed the final avenues open to us to get married. We had to talk in whispers in her apartment about our future...
...like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly...
...Vain, determined, gregarious, unencumbered by any noticeable traces of self-doubt or abiding commitment, Connally functions well on the shifting surface of events and has learned to do business with just about anybody. As he said about himself last week: "I'm so little understood. There's so little in my past to indicate what I think or believe. If people knew me well, they'd realize that on many of the things they discuss about me so avidly, I haven't any views...