Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vanzetti's wish that their deaths might serve as a lesson so they would not have died in vain now echoes hollowly off the walls of the star-chamber, and the injustice of their execution draws a some-what less harsh parallel in other present denials of civil rights. The Bill of Rights may be aged but its vigor is occasionally renewed as when the Supreme Court stated in 1943 that, "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion...
...puzzled over the strange cable: "Send $150. See Gitte soon, (signed) Siedentopf." Rolf was a cautious man. Says he: "I wasn't going to send money to someone I never heard of." So in the air freight office at Frankfurt, Private, Siedentopf and his fragile burden waited in vain while airport officials waved a bill for $130 freight charges. "Can't I send it C.O.D.?" asked the G.I. The answer was no. "Oh, well, then just store it. I'll be back." Into the storeroom went the box. After an uncomfortable 24 hours, restless Gitte, clad...
...Kovalev was ordered back to Russia, he slashed his wrists. But he was rushed to one of Berlin's American hospitals and recovered. He pleaded for help to get to the U.S. zone. Because of a U.S.Russian agreement to return each other's soldiery, his pleas were vain. When Red Army MPs came for him, Kovalev fought until they clapped a strait jacket on him. Hospital attendants last saw him in a Red Army ambulance beating his head against the side panels, trying to kill himself...
...Germany, it would be vain- Andrei smiled: "Veto again...
...Periodista! (Journalist! Journalist!) at a platoon of General Somoza's guardia who were charging across with bayonets fixed. I have smudged my nose on San Jose's cold pavements when police fired in the general direction of a mob of which I, unhappily, was one. All in vain. Somehow or other the revolutions don't seem to carry through down here any more...