Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outset of his Administration. He was convinced that America's role in the world could not allow abandoning a commitment and an ally. More important, he felt that the sacrifices in blood that the U.S. had already made in Indochina must not be dishonored and seemingly rendered in vain. So the quest for either a clear victory through Vietnamization and the massive use of U.S. airpower, or a negotiated, face-saving "peace with honor" began?to be accomplished within the four years of his first Administration, Nixon promised...
...cash ransom to Palestinian hijackers who had taken over an Athens-bound Lufthansa 747 with 186 passengers and crew members and diverted the plane to Aden. For their part, German officials complained that Israel's refusal to release any Arab prisoners had made the botched rescue a vain effort from the start...
...American lady vacationing in Italy seeks advice at the American consulate in Florence. She gets a crisp brush-off from a pompous young vice consul. "I pay your salary, young man," she protests, but in vain. That scene in Olivia de Havilland's 1962 movie, Light in the Piazza, often evokes a knowing chuckle from seasoned American travelers. U.S. consuls have a reputation-sometimes deserved, frequently not-of being coldly impervious to fellow citizens in distress. Now that the expanding but unreliable charter-flight business is leaving a growing number of travelers high and dry (TIME, Sept...
...There are some things I agree with, but..."The filmmakers have not mentioned Vietnam in a vain attempt to reduce the chance of incipient outdatedness...
...England we have come to know through the eyes of such visonaries as Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth or John Singer Sargent--nor through the commercial goo oozed out by company calendars or your local chamber of commerce. The DeCordova's view is new and refreshing. You will look in vain for the Vermont covered bridge, the red barns, weathered clabbard and punctuating steeple, the gulls on the wing and boats at dock (probably Rockport). You will even have to search for the Maine lobsterman, the Vermont farmer and Cape Cod fisherman. There is a larger cross-section of class, creed...