Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these three, with cautious, slow, well-meaning Henry Morgenthau Jr., Treasury Secretary, make up the President's War Cabinet. In a vain try to develop some kind of dynamic organization, the President chose a fifth man to lean on^ ailing Harry Hopkins, as executive secretary to the Secretaries. But Hopkins can work only six hours a day under as little strain as possible. So around him the President placed a small flying squadron of young Treasury-trained braintrusters, such as Philip Young and Oscar Cox-however, this was a compromise with a compromise...
...Nazi blow was struck at about the same time as the main attacks were biting into southeastern Yugoslavia, in Rupel Pass. There the Greeks fought hard, using the same tactics of cross fire as had proved so deadly against the Italians in the Pindus Mountains. But the fight was vain: the Nazi break-through in the Vardar Valley, and the prong which had then turned eastward towards Salonika, threatened the troops' rear. It became necessary to abandon Salonika...
...Bill is a charter of dictatorship and an assurance of war, and you shortly will have your wish. May you relish it in hindsight as much as you do in prospect. Hating fascism, you are embracing it by the back door. You are destroying the United States in the vain hope of mending a Europe about which you are as romantically deluded as were most of us in 1914-17." So said the Saturday Evening Post in one of the extraordinarily bitter letters with which it answered some readers who protested the magazine's stand against the Lend-Lease...
...will to resist did not exist in the souls of Europeans, it would, be vain to suppose that an American Army could provide freedom for peoples who will not fight for it. If, on the other hand, the will to resist is there, as indeed it is and ever more fiercely, then we can rest assured that the best troops for fighting in Europe will be Europeans fighting for their own homes, their own altars, their own flags, their own hope of life itself. . . . For every British soldier landed in Europe a thousand other soldiers come forward from among...
...around mid-Manhattan bars, drinking beer with them. In 1927 he bought two papers in Marion, one Republican, one Democratic, and settled down to the life of a country editor. He was a big shot in the town, and the side of Sherwood Anderson that was sociable, a little vain and flashy, had its innings...