Word: vaines
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...Cody airport isn't nearly so nice, and after a day of waiting in vain for another lift, I hop a commercial flight ($37 youth fare) to Denver. That night, with a bit of help from friendly mechanics, I snooze in the pilot's lounge...
...year, 35 researchers, including Ellsberg, Rand Corporation experts, civilians and uniformed Pentagon personnel, worked out of an office adjoining McNamara's. With his backing, they were able to obtain Pentagon documents dating back to arguments within the Truman Administration on whether the U.S. should help the French in their vain effort to put down Communist-led Viet Minh uprisings in Viet Nam. The work was carried up to mid-1968, when it was delivered to McNamara's successor, Clark Clifford, who says he never took the time to read it. One of the scholars called in early to help guide...
...derivative "Brown Sugar." And you get lots of live performances, but frankly the cloying, infatuated photography renders even these tedious after three or four songs; the Maysles seemed to have realized this, and Shelter's nadir comes when they try to jazz up their presentation of "Love in Vain" with rapturous slow-motion andYard,' with its hallowed dormitories that once housed some of our nation's great literary, philosophic and scientific minds." I found the use of the past tense particularly interesting...
...call up to the window, "Is Lobo O.K.?" The kids hold the raging beast down, inside the house, until a split-second before the visitor comes in the front door. Then Lobo is allowed to rush out the back door, a tornado of bristles and snarls, in a vain (hopefully) attempt to race around the establishment and up the front steps in time to rip the pants off whoever is going in the front door...
...became a prefecture of China's Fukien province under the Manchu dynasty in 1684; 15 major rebellions occurred there over the next 200 years. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, China ceded the island to Japan over the protests of the Taiwanese, who declared independence in a vain attempt to shake off foreign rule. At the end of World War II, the Japanese forces on Taiwan were directed to surrender to the Chinese. As recently as 1947, the Taiwanese again rebelled against their Chinese rulers...