Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point Yale moved into a wide open offensive pattern and began to stall. Nervous Harvard players, trying too hard for the ball, made too many mistakes and in short order Yale restored its supremacy. A last ditch effort by Borchard (who had 21 points) and Kelley was in vain...
Menon claims with some justice that India could not win a war with Red China, though it is a curious stance for a vain Defense Minister. But Menon's critics counter that defending Indian territory against further Red conquests need not lead to war. Trouble is that Menon has neglected to build up India's border defenses. While he and Nehru refuse to give details to Parliament, on the ground that such information would be useful to the Chinese, one fact is clear: north India's population centers are far closer to the frontier than Red China...
Solarin is sure that his helpers' work is not in vain. "Our mission is clear," says he. "It's to foster absolute freedom of thought in Nigeria. And we don't intend to turn out any gentlemen...
Tshombe left his pink and white stucco residence to tour the shattered wards of Prince Leopold Hospital, stopping to offer sympathy and thanks to the wounded. Said he: "Your wounds are not in vain." Then he made his last-ditch tom-tom appeal to his warriors: "Poisoned arrows will shower on our opponents; each onusien [U.N. soldier] will be a corpse...
...Jaspers had hoped to yield but a small margin in the shot put and weight throw, but they hoped in vain. Ed Bailey, Art Doten, and Loren Clayman began the afternoon by sweeping the 35-lb, weight throw for the Crimson...