Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand, he bolstered his case with cool, quiet testimony that Keuper could not shake. Coppolino admitted his affair with Mrs. Farber, but insisted that he was a conscientious physician to Farber on the day he died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular William Farber's heart had sounded...
...agencies are facing some real problems as the amount of money flowing from them to the universities grows and grows. How are overall research priorities to be set? How can the worth of individual researchers and their projects best be judged? Yet the agencies have chosen to emphasize this vain and misguided attempt to judge researchers' output by the amount of "effort" they put into...
...Tried without counsel, he spent 91 months in jail, working off his 30-day sentence and $254 fine at $1 per day. Only Justice Hugo Black joined Stewart in holding that the case should be reviewed. But such acceptance requires the votes of four justices, and Stewart argued in vain that "it is at least our duty to see to it that a vital guarantee of the U.S. Constitution is accorded with an even hand in all the states...
Like Father. Envious competitors consider Bergesen aloof and insufferably vain, not the least for his habit of walking the three miles from his suburban home to his Oslo office each morning, while a chauffeured limousine trails behind. Nine years ago, the rivals got an unexpected recruit, when his son Berge Sigval Bergesen repeated a bit of family history: he broke with the family firm, railing that father found it "impossible to retire." Now 48, Berge has his own charter operation called Sigship. Warily staying away from tankers, he specializes in bulk carriers - many of them also leviathans in their class...
Picked up once more, Simmons was threatened with a cocked gun in a vain effort to make him confess, then hauled to Hilda's hospital room, where the dying girl had already identified the killer as everyone from her own doctor to one of the FBI's ten top fugitives. In such cases, the penal code of the State of Nuevo León specifies that the suspect be placed in a line-up with similar persons in similar dress. Simmons was ordered to wear a white shirt and dark trousers and brought into the room with white...