Word: vaines
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...campaign stop in the living room of a turn-of-the-century house in Dubuque, Iowa, he told how the father of a dead child had asked him in a whisper to promise that his child and the other had not died in vain. Gore...
...deaths of the innocent young people that they killed should not be in vain. Whatever the reasons for their deaths, we should try to honor their lives by examining the society that their generation--our generation--has inherited...
...from the examples so readily available in the Square at this time of year, I confess) were about to come true. The sounds were full of emotion, but unable to abandon my verbal vocabulary, I found myself furiously scribbling poor analogy after poor analogy on my program in a vain attempt to translate the sounds and dancing into a familiar syntax...
...parents and friends helped him at first, they weren't breaking the law. But after the warrant was issued, the cops hunted him with increasing fervor. One time the entire robbery detail (which had been reconstituted) rode around the park on mountain bikes in the rain, trying in vain to find...
...most entertaining sideshow of the war in Kosovo is staged almost every day at the Pentagon's press briefing room. There exasperated reporters conduct jousting sessions with uniformed military commanders in vain attempts to divine the most banal of battlefield data information. How many NATO air strikes have been aborted because of bad weather? "I'm afraid I can't get into that level of detail right off the top of my head," Vice Admiral Scott Fry said at a Pentagon briefing early in the campaign. How about an approximation? "I'd prefer not to even approximate it." A ballpark...