Word: vaines
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With Ellen, Tom faces "December of longing, and perhaps a renewal of Saturdays of anguish." But not only with her--he reaches out in vain to others. "How much can you cry for a person you cannot have?", asks Ellen, who cannot possibly understand...
...Galamison, he got into his 1962 Lincoln Continental and with Negro Comedian Dick Gregory drove along the expressways, looking in vain for a good place to stall. As he approached the fair site in Flushing Meadows, he found the dividing strip between lanes on the highway lined with police. Several times a fellow demonstrator, following Galamison in his own car, drew abreast of the minister and shouted: "When are you going to stall?" Galamison cried back: "Let's keep looking...
...official position in the Diem regime, he was the overlord of central Viet Nam. A rural Rasputin in high-collared mandarin robes who wenched and swindled lustily, he nevertheless ran his fief so effectively that it had less trouble from the Viet Cong than any other area. Can in vain advised his brothers, President Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, to ease the measures against the Buddhists-not out of idealism but to avoid rocking the boat...
Before he died, Lenin carefully considered the man who was to succeed him. Joseph Stalin had risen to the post of first party secretary from his beginnings as a terrorist and holdup man for party funds. In his political testament, Lenin warned in vain against making Stalin his successor, because he considered him too rude and too ambitious...
...horror of being so many kings who die by the sword and so many unhappy lovers who converge, diverge, and melodiously agonize. The story goes that, before or after he died, he found himself before God and he said: 'I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man: myself.' The voice of God replied: 'Neither am I one self; I dreamed the world as you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare, and among the shapes of my dream are you, who, like me, are many persons-and none...