Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvey, it turned out, had been married six times, and his surviving ex-wives agreed that he was a vain, difficult husband, and a man whose love quickly cooled. Reported Wife No. 1, now remarried to a Fort Myers, Fla., businessman: "I don't think I satisfied him. I don't think any woman could. He was very egotistical. He worried about himself. He weight-lifted a lot." Said No. 3, now married to a Dallas doctor: "I don't know which wife I was. It wasn't like being married anyhow. He was constantly interested...
...vain did one search for house Playmates. Two were eventually chosen from the dates present--for dancing ability or something like that. The procedure was similar to the way queens are chosen at any decent high school sock hop. The prizes were different of course. Instead of a factory sealed (or kissed) Elvis record, Playboy pajamas were awarded; the spirit was the same, though...
...reactions of the Attorney General and Judge Goldberg to Tropic show that they do not understand a book which they have banned. Shocked by Miller's words, they have not penetrated to Miller's meaning. At the trial, witnesses like Harry Levin tried to explain this; but in vain. And it seems certain that Levin's final statement was also in vain: "As a citizen of the Commonwealth, I would be ashamed to be denied the right to read a book talked about by the rest of the world...
...Portugal's 2,250,000 voters to boycott the polls. The government immediately banned all further news of the opposition on the theory that "it no longer exists." Though many opposition leaders faced jail sentences for their part in the campaign, few felt it had been in vain. Said one: "We opened a very small window to show the world the lies and treachery that surround...
...peculiar because I want to do something with my life besides bear children, along comes an article about a woman who has lived the fullest life imaginable that proves to me, and I hope to a lot of other girls in college, that all this is not in vain...