Word: vaines
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...fled before the U.S. dropped six smart bombs on his luxurious compound 70 miles west of Baghdad, and was then turned in to American forces by an informer. Yet Schneider, an IRS criminal investigator based in Pensacola, Fla., told TIME that he displayed no ill will toward the U.S. Vain and concerned about his appearance, Barzan did grumble about a tear in his safari suit and waved a hand to show his long fingernails, complaining that he had not been allowed to trim them...
Franklin's freethinking unnerved his family. When his parents wrote of their concern over his "erroneous opinions," Franklin replied with a letter that spelled out a religious philosophy based on tolerance that would last his life. It would be vain for any person to insist that "all the doctrines he holds are true and all he rejects are false." The same could be said of the opinions of different religions. He had little use for the doctrinal distinctions his mother worried about. "I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. And the Scripture assures...
...died in my hands." ELIYAHU SHMUELI, a Jerusalem city employee, describing his vain attempt to rescue a burning woman from a bus obliterated by a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem; 17 people died...
...watching—whether from the stands of from their homes—felt the same way about that game as I felt about the Dartmouth game three years ago. Given that, I hope that no one thinks for a second those two Harvard comebacks were at all in vain...
...Cannes entries about Afghanistan, needed the right girl to play his lead. Barmak was seeking someone with whom Afghans could identify, someone who would make his audience "feel confident about themselves, to prove to them that they are human again." He combed Kabul's schools and orphanages in vain. Then came a chance street encounter. A young girl in a tattered salwar kameez approached him, begging for money. "Her eyes," says Barmak, "were like an explosion of light." Marina Golbahari had never acted before, but she didn't need to reach deep for the emotions Barmak wanted her to reveal...