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Mussolini and Diem owe the slogan to its originator, the Royalist La Rochejaquelin, who shouted the same enjoinder-in French-to his Catholic followers during the Wars of the Vendee (1793), a vain counterrevolution against anticlerical republican revolutionaries...
...foreign aid program, the situation may already have gone beyond remedy by words, no matter how reasonable. Not even a bipartisan effort by the Senate's leaders could stem the anti-foreign aid tide. In the vain hope of preventing worse cuts, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen had agreed to drop $385 million from the $4.2 billion recommended by Foreign Relations. But the Senate went even farther, whacked $25 million from the Development Loan Fund, $125 million from the President's foreign aid contingency fund, reapplied $75 million of that to increase the Alliance...
...those who least needed it that this time demonstrations would be big and effective, and persuaded in turn by the inevitable enthusiasm of the Movement regulars that maybe they really would be. Long tedious organizing among the masses of Negroes (who were cynical and tired after a year's vain demonstrating) was hardly necessary if the people were so ready. Anyway, they would be leading somebody into jail...
...Elephant heroics would have been in vain, had the Quincy eleven not pulled the upset of the season against Kirkland. The win was Quincy's first, and shattered Kirkland's hopes for the league title, barring an unlikely Dudley win over Eliot next week in the Elephants' final scheduled game...
Point of View. Yale's 17th president fits no educator's conventional mold. In college, he rose to become chairman of the Daily News, but on Tap Day, when Yale juniors are selected for secret societies, a delegation from Skull & Bones searched for Brewster in vain, finally found him firmly seated on a basement toilet, from which perspective he declined membership. At the start of World War II, when Yale's President...