Word: vaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, in Newton, family and friends of Mrs. Faith Deertag gathered for her funeral. Husband Axel told reporters she died happily. "When we learned she had only minutes to live," Deer-tag recalled, "Faith turned to me and said, 'My death will not have been in vain if only this precious heart of mine can beat for another living creature...
...Bravo for the honesty and courage evidenced by Columnist Howard K. Smith [March 1]. It is about time that the whole journalistic profession stood back and took a long look at what they have done to our nation. One searches daily, in vain, through the mass of publications and news broadcasts for one word that would reassure the common man that all the colored people are not Stokely Carmichaels, that all our youth are not chick-en-livered draft dodgers, that not all the people have lost faith in our President and in his honest efforts to do the best...
...Multiplicity suggests a natural phenomenon," says Astronomer Hewish. "It would be stretching the imagination too far for all of them to be generated by intelligent beings." The Mullard team searched in vain for slight changes in signal frequency that would indicate it came from a planet or a double star system; in orbit around a star, for example, a planetary transmitter would alternately approach and recede from the earth, producing a Doppler effect that would first increase and then decrease the frequency of its signal...
...good. But even if the author is taken with the work of his hands, the audience isn't, not at least in the Quincy House production of The Cavern. The show chugs along at a level of basic competence, but you wait in vain for the spark that would make Anouilh's premise work...
...than haul him in to confess, S.I.S. sent a longtime colleague to confront him, informally, with his sins-"a sporting way" to "allow Kim to run for it." Contends le Carré: "The Establishment is shown to have behaved with grotesque ineptitude. It is arguable that Kim Philby, spiteful, vain and murderous as he was, was the spy and catalyst whom the Establishment deserved...