Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of us--with service in two wars under our belts--are still facing the same issue. Only now it is a question of accepting our national responsibility in making sure that these two wars shall not have been fought in vain. My best friend on the CRIMSON was Fuzzy Blaine. One of his sons died on Saipan. If Fuzzy and I were competing today as editorial "heelers," I am sure that we should be vying with each other in trying to make people see that the Marshall Plan must be adopted--without stint or strings--because...
...three harassed officials tried in vain to pull the traveler from the luggage rack to which he clung. At last, the carriage was uncoupled and shunted into a tunnel. There, in complete darkness, the adamantine passenger sulked and fumed. Not until the railway officials threatened to shunt his car onto a siding permanently did he finally consent to leave the train and wait for the regular 4:25 to Grantham...
Said Benjamin Franklin: "The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of Human Understanding.... We have been assured, Sir, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall...
After 50 hours of vain efforts to get his ship off the Goodwins, Captain Ruocco sorrowfully went ashore with his crew of 28, two German stowaways and an Alsatian pup. Later he came back to the ship, hoping to jettison the heavy lead cargo. Tide and weather thwarted him. Sturdy little Dover tugs buzzed about the Silvia Onorato, greedy for salvage. But at week's end, the insatiable Goodwins* still held their prize. Said a lifeboat man with a touch of local pride: "I think the Goodwins got her for good...
...people," said Niall McPherson of Dumfries, "are accustomed to their oatmeal, and they must have it." But the pleas were in vain. Like a stiftnecked English nanny who knows what's best, the Parliament sustained the oatmeal ration...