Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus far all appeals to the have been in vain. Gloss is now a letter writing campaign at the Boston Redevelopment in the hopes that a stay of will be rendered...
...seemed to the playwright Seneca that with every passing year the women of Rome were becoming more and more vain, their earrings and other jewelry more and more costly. "Probably," said Seneca, "these mad fools of women believe their husbands would not be sufficiently tormented were they not to wear two or three chunks of the hereditary patrimony hanging from each ear." The women doubtless deserved the scolding, but their excess of vanity has proved a boon for posterity. For the past few months, thousands of Italians have been delighting in an exhibition of 1,000 Italian gold and silver...
Amidst cries of "foul" and "unfair" Holworthy downed Thayer Middle 48 to 40 yesterday in the freshman intramural basketball championship. Thayer chaged in vain that unfair rule changes had been made. Holworthy's King Triplett was high scorer in the game with seventeen points. Skip Falcone and Ted Lynch were high point men for Thayer Middle with nine each...
...millions of Roman Catholic moviegoers, and they managed to charm plenty of Protestants too. In this picture, after a run of unsuccessful shows, McCarey has once more called upon religion to perform a commercial miracle; but this time he appears to have used the Lord's name in vain. For all its superficial smirk of piety, McCarey's Satan is just a prurient, soft-soap-and-holy-water version of the spicy story about the lonely missionary and the beautiful native girl...
...author proves the assumption to have been incorrect and the hope vain. After the British government realized that it could not persuade the Bolsheviks to reopen the war, it conducted military operations in the outer parts of Russia to protect its interests against future German advance. Yet as the author states, the Germans were too concerned about the military situation in the West to penetrate further into Russia. Thus, after the Armistice of November 11, 1918, the British were left with small forces in North and Central Russia who attacked a mission. Ullman leaves the second stage of British intervention...