Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign to juvenile delinquents that they can get away with murder-a green light for them to do anything. My wife and I are not brutal. We don't demand an eye for an eye. But I thought possibly Michael's death wouldn't be in vain. Now he's a lost cause, an absolutely wasted life. These marauding savages have made a laughingstock of the law. I can just see the grins and the ha-ha's in the neighborhood where the Egyptian Dragons live...
...current $2 billion-a-year national income. And Castro, never well armed, is suffering so badly from shortage of guns and ammunition that last week he denounced his principal backer, rich ex-President Carlos Prio, for "living in luxury in Miami" while the rebels eat roots and wait in vain for arms...
...third possibility is that, being vain even as other men are vain, he will accept the inducements that are offered to him from every hand, will bestow an indiscriminate blessing upon whatever enterprise will ensure him the prestige and perquisites which he feels...
...when dress workers staged ten of the bloodiest strikes in New York history to organize the industry. In the late 19203 and early 1930s strikers and shop owners had fought in the streets with shivs and sawed-off pool cues. Knife-wielding Communists ripped and clubbed workers in a vain attempt to run them into a Red-led splinter group. But in 1932, Dubinsky moved up to the presidency of the parent garment union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, forced out the Communists, rallied the divided unionists, won concessions from management and steered labor into calm waters...
Your Feb. 17 account of France's atrocities in Tunisia reads like a report on the rape of Hungary by Russia. U.N. sanctions against France are vain to hope for, but the U.S. and other true democratic nations should not condone murder, even when committed by our so-called allies...