Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, the liberation of the Philippines is nearing completion. Manila Bay itself will take years to clear, but Liberty ships and big refrigerator ships already can tie up alongside the piers which the Japanese tried in vain to destroy; tens of thousands of tons are unloaded daily. Other tens of thousands still must go ashore over the beaches. But it gets ashore, to the men who need...
...rest of the movie, Tallulah contributes some very earthy kisses and a spirited champagne-drinking scene in a vain effort at seduction, while the new general equally vainly tries to reform the empire. Hints from his fiancee and several independent conspirators show the general that he is only a bondoir soldier. He retires, and the Czarina turns to the French ambassador for further amusement...
...there are not millions of American mothers and their families who feel as I do, then indeed has my son's (and all the other sons') death been in vain, and the housewives and their children will in very fact eat themselves swinishly to another holocaust...
...even if the hopes vested in San Francisco are not fulfilled, World War II should not have been in vain. The Nazi attempt to derail the train of history caused a near-wreck but brought doom upon its perpetrators. After such an overwhelming defeat, the enemies of civilization should not find it so easy to emerge from the sewers. And the victors, having mustered the forces of civilization, will have a stake in preserving them...
...captured by the Allies was Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, 64, who piled up a great heap of German dead in his vain effort to take Moscow, and was known as Der Sterber ("The Dier"), because of his constant prating about the glory of death on the battlefield. On a roadside north of Hamburg last week British troops found Bock's body riddled by bullets, apparently from an Allied strafing plane...