Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, at the border, by playing smart-ass and declaring his cocaine, which the guards search for in vain, he subjects both himself and Cheryl to the legendary orifice check. We are treated to a shot of Marjoe with a proctoscope up his ass discussing Nixon and Vietnam with the doctor. Heavy. Later, he drives his microbus (decorated with a U.S. flag on the side and an eagle on the front, heavy again) over the boarder with Cheryl silently weeping in humiliation beside...
...culture." Then came an ominous touch: "We are only victorious when we can cut the hands of the foreigners from our lands. The agents of the foreigners who are trying to cheat our interests must know that they are now part of history. All their struggles will be in vain. I pray to God for your glory and good health, and I pray to God to help us cut off the hands of the foreigners." With that the crowded terminal rang with shouts: "Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar...
...spoke out in a news conference on July 25 against the communist menace in Iran. He was meanwhile working desperately behind the scenes to bolster the Shah's confidence. It was Dulles who persuaded the Shah's sister, Ashraf, to return the same day to Iran in a vain attempt to encourage her brother to be more assertive...
...Rome the Shah was despondent. A gynecologist provided by the CIA was giving a course of injections to his wife, Soroya, in a vain attempt to reverse her childlessness. He badgered her so often to make love with her husband that she finally lost her temper. "Doctor," she snapped, "all I'm asking you to do is find something to break my eggs. I'll see the Shah goes on making omelettes." The news of the successful coup cheered the Shah over this contretemps, however, and he returned triumphantly to Iran...
...have conveyed more eloquently the task of actually sitting down and putting words on paper: "Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain." And few have expressed more simply the pleasures of that word tamer. "Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. This is the great advantage they possess, which more than makes up for the little they usually earn." The words may jump and snarl, snap and bite when Brenan sits down at his own desk...