Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibility of an Algerian republic or a unilateral cease-fire by France. At the burial ceremony last week of ten Foreign Legion paratroopers killed in battle with the F.L.N., tough Colonel Jean Dufour, with tears in his eyes, said: "It is not possible their sacrifice has been in vain. It is not possible that our cries of anguish should be ignored by our compatriots in France...
Leadership Is Indivisible. Then Khrushchev set his glass down and led Liu and 46 other Communist chieftains up the stairs to the Kremlin's green-tiled Winter Garden Room to open his "Red summit'' meeting. He had tried in vain to arrange a compromise at the Bucharest meeting last June. He had gone to lengths that flabbergasted Westerners, Afro-Asians and apparently even his own comrades at the U.N. to show that he could comport himself as militantly as any Peking proponent of revolutionary violence. Now, presumably convinced that anything but peaceful coexistence is suicidal for Soviet...
...politics of the Algerian situation drags interminably through the editorial pages and literary journals of the West. "When, having learned by experience, the Americans recognize that nationalism in Africa or Asia is neither democratic nor liberal," (writes Aron with singular clarity,) "they plead the inevitable: it would be vain, in the modern world, to oppose the liberation of the colored races...If we assume that they are right, the Americans should not be astonished that the French are not easily convinced." It is easier, as W.W. Rostow has noted, to colonize than to pull out of the colonies...
After several vain attempts to quiet the 20,000 people jammed into the Garden (no more could have fit), State party chairman John M. Lynch began speaking into the microphone...
These national voters are the ones who can't see how either candidate can or should win who want to vote "No" for the Presidency this year. They are the ones who look, usually in vain, for "reason in politics" and, not finding it, decide a boycott is better than voting for the lesser of two evils. The lesser of the two evils for them in the current case is clearly Kennedy, and it is he who has disappointed them, as perhaps Governor Stevenson...