Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consort made three runs past the Amethyst in vain attempts to get a towline to her. She could not come nearer than 1,000 yards. After the third run, she headed downstream to Shanghai, where a guard of British and U.S. bluejackets and U.S. Marines attended the removal of the Consort's ten dead and two score wounded...
...have tried my level best to carry that burden in the interests of all the people of the country," he said, "and I hope that when the history of the period is written it will be said that the effort was not in vain...
...wife has begun to love him, the lily-like Lucrezia tries to do him in with a dollop of poisoned wine. Lund seems to enjoy all this nonsense, but he is the only member of the cast who does. Miss Goddard, trailing around in sumptuous gowns, waits in vain for an opportunity to climb alluringly in & out of a Renaissance...
...rank & filer, now a commissar with a bleak smile and cold eye, who finds himself bewildered because, though he knows he shouldn't be, he is unhappy. Another is an ugly, peevish, middle-aged nurse secretly in love with feeble Dr. Suprugov. The doctor himself, a weak, cunning, vain, lying, frightened creature, might have come out of Chekhov...
...greatest danger facing Western Germany, however, is not want. It is not represented by the jarring contrast between the smooth face and the scarred. It is expressed in the fact that, politically speaking, Germany has no face at all. One may look in vain for it in any small town -a town, for example, like Remagen...