Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their transport sailed to New Zealand, and the men scoured the bookstores in vain. The transport sailed on. was sunk in the Solomons. Machinist's Mate Third Class Lloyd Powers, one of the men on the gun deck, got back to the U.S. last January, made another unsuccessful search for a copy of the book. When he landed briefly in the San Diego Naval Hospital, he pestered Librarian Jeanette Barry to try. She appealed for help in Publishers' Weekly, but still no copy turned...
...divisions had to wait for us, which is untrue. They make it a practice to attack during the latter part of the morning, thereby holding up our advance a number of mornings. Aslito airfield, "the primary objective," was taken by our regiment after the Marines had twice tried in vain. Other units of the division had the job of taking Mount Tapotchau while the Marines took both flanks and a great deal of the lower ground that flanked the mountain...
...supported himself by translating French novels, co-authored two in English (A Comedy of Masks, Adrian Rome). He was perpetually quarrelsome, frequently took a dislike to people, strangers included. He continued, within his limits, to live "riotously, with the throng." Once, when a friend tried in vain to dissuade him from living with a French prostitute, Dowson said gravely: "Our association is like that of Robert and Mrs. Browning.'' In 1900, aged 33, he went home to London...
...Slavs, in vain the depths of hell threaten...
These days are trying ones. Midshipmen go around with eyes dreamier than usual, and with feet a whole lot clumsier. You bump into them, you step on them, you ignore them, but all in vain, for they are all up in the ozone about their coming informal hop. Nothing matters anymore. What if Osage is practically bankrupt, who cares about Lifo or Fifo, aren't they going to take a real live girl to their first Harvard dance? And so it goes, just showing you what an important event tomorrow night's affair at the Parker House is going...