Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was little or nothing for shoppers to buy. At grey-market shops, a pound of chocolates cost a laborer's full week's wage. Berliners stared at the meager, overpriced goods in frustrated despair; women wept. "Dear God," muttered one Hausfrau who had been searching in vain for some coffee cups and plates to brighten her yuletide table, "another Communist Christmas...
...phai là nhung nguoi dã chet vô ích . . ." With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
Newsmen seeking confirmation and comment searched in vain for Ingrid's husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, who has not seen her, except for a grim two-day visit, since she went to Italy in March to make a "different" movie. "Lolly" Parsons' story was two days old before anyone penetrated the Roman seclusion of Ingrid and Director Rossellini. Then the New York Times's studious Vatican correspondent, Camille M. Cianfarra, interviewed them in Ingrid's apartment. While the Swedish actress poured strong black coffee, Reporter Cianfarra managed to ask whether she was to become a mother early...
...latest theft occurred Wednesday night while Briggs residents were having supper. When the robbery was discovered, Mrs. Garfield rang the fire alarm and summoned the 96 residents downstairs, where they were all searched in vain...
That night, while the weather lay thick and foul over the Norwegian coast, the control tower at Oslo airport received a garbled message from the DC-3's pilot. Forty-two hours later, after searching parties had scoured the countryside in vain, a lumberjack walking near Oslo Fjord heard the thin cry of a child. He found the wreckage of the DC-3; sitting primly in his seat in the plane's tail, his safety belt fastened, rain-soaked and spattered with oil, was Isaac Allal...