Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacrificed in vain, and rumors of assassination were still whispered in Bangkok's dance halls, where the girls did their turns in deepest mourning. With heavy innuendo a Chinese-language newspaper suggested that Dictator Premier Pridhi had found Ananda's love for the U.S. was as dangerous as the U.S. guns Ananda collected. "Ananda fell victim of an American bullet because he played too much and too carelessly with an American gun," it said...
...last week's lull from strikes, many an American hoped that now was the time when smart unionists would do some soul-searching and long-range planning for peace. Their hopes were vain...
This year some 30,000 bushels of the new Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S. celebrates its 60th birthday, it could boast that it had made Canadian wheat the world's toughest...
...approached for Allied invasion, Britain and the U.S. looked in vain to Mihailovich for a unified resistance. By 1944, wrote British former liaison officer Fitzroy MacLean last week, Tito "was carrying out a widespread and effective resistance to the Germans, and Mihailovich, however good his intentions, was not. In those days the military effectiveness of our allies was a far more important consideration than their political complexion...
...Finally, it is appropriate to ask what remedy Mr. Murray proposes for the demonstrated evils with which Congress has tried to deal. One may search his letter in vain. . . . His sole contribution is the request that the Case bill be vetoed, and the unions thereby be left free to pursue in future the course they have in the recent past...