Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberal List. Washington waited in vain for the stop-Kennedy summit meeting. It never came. Neither Symington nor Johnson was willing at this time to bow out in favor of the other; Stevenson was urged to endorse Kennedy, but decided to wait out the results of this week's Oregon primary, where all hopefuls-including Oregon's own Wayne Morse-are entered. In the lull, United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, political shop steward of Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams, came out for Kennedy. So did Humphreyman Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action...
...describing these tiny embarrass ments, contests of will, vain attempts to please. Author Sarraute puts them under a microscope and painstakingly focuses and refocuses it till they are seen absolutely clearly but magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real life they would probably need to seek asylum - or take up writing New Realist novels on their own. But Author Sarraute's skillful pressing on the neurotic nerve is bound to awaken shocks of recognition in the persevering reader, suggesting, among other things, that no man is a hero...
...gave Dwight Eisenhower one of the shortest briefings in military history: "We are ready to attack the enemy-who is over there." Song is a passionate believer in civilian supremacy, argues that, "If the military take over, our democracy will go and our fight against Communism is vain." Late last week, when Acting President Huh offered to make him Defense Minister, Song flatly declined...
...takes him at his full worth?perhaps in hopes that differences will thaw once he is so reassured. The official kid-glove treatment ranged from the right food at state dinners (simple meals, no sauce on the steaks) to carefully planned walking requirements (since he is too vain to wear his thick glasses a moment more than necessary, De Gaulle's every step in strange territory is a source of trouble...
...succession to the British throne. Before the royal family and 60 guests, the archbishop turned to Prince Andrew's five godparents, including the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, and intoned: "Dost thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them?'' Replied the godparents in unison: "I will renounce them...