Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
...tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed in vain. Walk Through the Valley is a solid book...
...Sullivan, so that local police could issue tickets for longstanding meter violations without getting their hip-boots wet. Asked if the Police would tag buried cars, the Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves inside the crumbling walls of old Fort Yuma. The Public Works Department ("Golden Arm" Sullivan's code name for the 4th Sappers Unmounted Light) attempted to erect scaling ladders...
Protest, however, was in vain. For one reason or another, 21 of the pro-government Assemblymen failed to answer roll call last week when the last of the law's 58 provisions came 10 a vote. Whether that was a gesture of confidence or abstention made no difference: in the final balloting, opposition to the standby constitution was crushed...
...Marxist literary critic named J. G. Quiggin and a liberal named Mark Members, two broke and brilliant university men who symbolize the United Front. They contend for the job as secretary to a rich, vain novelist of inflated reputation. Quiggin, the Marxist, wins, and triumphantly trundles the senile genius in his wheelchair at the head of a workers' demonstration in Hyde Park...