Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign rights to CBS Reports, hadn't decided to pick up Harvest of Shame. Dismayed at the damage that a European showing of the film could do to the image of America that he was now pledged to promote abroad, USIA Director Murrow called the BBC in a vain effort to suppress the show. Harvest of Shame, said Murrow, had been for domestic use only...
...vain and impotent thing to bewail the dead, the Greek poet Stesichorus once admonished his readers. And no doubt it is; but perhaps some of that fabled $87 million still remains. And if it does, there may be some hope for a raising of the dead. Ah, gentlemen, make the most of what you may yet spend...
...Birch Society Sir: Thank God for the "lunatic fringe!" I was beginning to think our patriotic heroes of the past had spilled their blood in vain-heroes who died to preserve America only to have today's soft, confused population surrender, compromise, conform and wishful-think it all away! Your article, "The Americanists," has restored my faith in the American people once more. How do I go about joining the John Birch Society...
...suitors alike was not condoned by Puccini. During the final duet (the part he never completed), the composer intended Calaf and Turandot "to descend through love to the level of mankind." They would at times echo Liu's touchingly simple music. Her sacrifice would not have been in vain. But, at the same time, through the sheer excitement of this last duet, the audience would not regret this sacrifice, but instead would realize that the grand love of Calaf and Turandot required Liu's death. Her demise was not pathetic but necessary. As it stands now, Alfano's cheap music...
...rigged" prices of the Western oil companies. Making its first major deal with Russia, Pakistan fortnight ago signed up for a $30 million Soviet exploration scheme, which will bring in Russian teams to look for oil in Pakistan itself. Reason: most U.S. and British oil firms, after years of vain exploration there, have given up the search, leading some Pakistanis to suspect that their failure was intentional to keep prices high...