Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their ashes kept coming back. But now it was almost unbelievably different. Already the people might look almost defiantly into the mild skies where the foreign bombers had been expected. Glorious had been Japan's victories. Instead of being attacked from the air, Japan was driving the rich, vain, intolerable British and Americans from the Orient. The New Asia was coming to pass...
...rushed to Washington to get the release, with recommendations from the War Department made application to the Justice Department (which has an Alien Property division left over from World War I). He waited in vain for results...
...read in the paper that the Treasury would be in charge of alien property, rushed over and filed another application. The Treasury told him also to file with his Federal Reserve Bank, so he went back West and did so. Again he waited in vain...
...started to make a lecture tour, collapsed. At an Illinois labor convention he hung wistfully around the hall, a little man in shabby clothes, waiting in vain for an invitation to speak. He fell sick again. The California Federation of Labor turned down a resolution to pay his bills; he had veered too far to their left...
They cried in vain. The white men also were in flight from southern Burma. Some stayed in Rangoon, to shoot Burmese looters and hold to the last, until the Japs finally entered this week, the remnants of that golden city. British and Indian troops fought, fell back, fought again. British crews arrived with a few U.S. tanks-too few. U.S. pilots in China's American Volunteer Group had to abandon Rangoon, after taking a heavy toll of Japanese planes with the few bullet-battered fighters left to them. Correspondent Leland Stowe watched a bombed village burn, and wrote "When...