Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a Senator kept his own tally. Six times the vote was tied. The final count: 43-to-41 against taking up the nomination now. (Actually, the final vote was a 42-to-42 tie, but Ohio's Bob Taft, though bitterly anti-Wallace, switched his in a vain effort to force a reconsideration.) The pro-Wallace vote was made up of ten Republicans, one Progressive and 32 Democrats. The men who had saved Wallace fell into three groups: 1) out & out New Dealers; 2) Senators who might have voted against him but feared C.I.O. retaliation at home...
...Park, Ill., Mrs. Abraham Katz heard the news that her son, Charles, "was saved, and said quietly: "I wish all mothers of prisoners could share my joy." But in Maywood, Ill., families waited in vain for word of 85 of their sons who had been with the 192nd Tank Battalion at Bataan. For most of the families of some 12,000 American soldiers and sailors taken by the Japs-and still unaccounted for-the waiting and suspense only became sharper...
...peacetime conscription is effected and I am unfortunate enough to be killed in the war against militarism yet to be finished, I can't help but feel I shall have died in vain. Should I be fortunate enough to live, I will fight it with all the power one small voice can muster, inspired only by a sincere love of freedom...
...Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last ten years, weighed only 70 Ibs. when he died. Beyond the knowledge of most men, says Author Connolly, Thompson "knew the meaning of the awful condition set down...
...vain people, but the Germans should certainly have a perpetual reminder of the fact that they lost-not only to superior force but to an aroused ideal...