Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter the U.S. 10th Mountain Division-skiers turned mountain fighters -swept across the Apennines, took Mt. Belvedere, which two other divisions had attacked in vain. There died Torger Tokle, the towheaded ex-Brooklyn carpenter who became America's greatest ski jumper. The loth, only U.S. division trained for combat on skis, boasted names big in American skiing: Walter Prager, Percy Rideout, Don Goodman, Weir Stewart, John Litchfield. This winter many of them will be back in competition...
Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...
Soekarno appealed in vain to his followers to stop fighting. Bespectacled, experienced Hubertus van Mook, the acting Governor, had his ears pinned back by his Government for deigning to confer with Soekarno. The Dutch do not want to lose the richest part of their empire, do not forget that Soekarno was chief Jap puppet in Java, and still hate to admit that Indonesia may have matured politically during the Jap occupation. They told Van Mook that he might deal with other native leaders, but never with Soekarno...
...long under full-scale and free exploitation of air weapons over the heart of its territory." The Germans put some industries underground. They built concrete shelters able to withstand direct hits. One shelter in Hamburg, named the "Holy Ghost," housed 60,000 people. But all such efforts were in vain...
...Dissenters. By no means all scientists supported the May bill. Some, fed up with Army bureaucracy, asked in vain for further hearings on the bill. Some thought that the current concepts of control ignored the real nature of pure research. Said one such doubter: "A lot of nuclear research is done with a brain, a pencil and a piece of paper. How can you control that...