Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more hostages shot at dusk and buried in a common grave at the edge of a village. But they had gone through that many times. When the British forces evacuated the island in 1941, many remained behind, unable to get away; the invaders shot hundreds of Cretans in a vain attempt to find their hiding places. When illegal pamphlets are distributed or a newspaper slips up and prints favorable Allied news, more are shot. It has been going on now for two years. "But." George says, "we're a patient lot. We can go on for a while longer...
Next week it will wait in vain. For the second time in 62 years, Newport will have no Tennis Week. World War II has blasted Newport tennis off the courts-as World War I did in 1917.* Also blasted off the big-time summer tennis circuit are Seabright, with its 56 courts flanked by trees, estates; and Longwood, with its box-square stands flanked by bus and trolley lines out of Boston...
This time Joan Fontaine is Tessa, the nubile nymph doomed to love in vain (in Switzerland and England) for 105 cineminutes, and to expire of excess happiness and a heart attack inside of one. Charles Boyer is egocentric Composer Dodd, who does not notice that little Tessa is growing up and in love with him. Alexis Smith is his icy socialite wife, who does notice...
...blockhouses, pillboxes and fortified ravines were reduced by the famed, straight-shooting Russian artillery. Overhead U.S. and British-made bombers dropping three-and four-ton bombs cooperated with Soviet Stormoviks in attacks on enemy tank and troop concentrations and on German nerve centers at Orel and Bryansk. In a vain attempt to stem the tide, the Luftwaffe flew as many as 1,500 sorties in a single day, but the sky was full of Russian planes. The Germans could not win the air supremacy they needed...
When inflation comes, hell gripe as loud as the rest of us. Then Congress will look to him in vain for a kindly word...