Word: vainly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...raise a lot of questions, in the end I didn’t care what the answers were. What I really wanted to know is what Linney was doing wasting her talent on this mediocre picture, how many different ways Gere could grimace in one film in a vain attempt to emote or, perhaps the greatest question of all, why this film was ever made...Now that’s a real unsolved mystery...
...death, says the Washington Post, asking him to write to lawmakers. "Support your government and your military," he urged, "especially when the bodies start coming home." That was an extraordinary plea from a man heading into harm's way: Don't fail us; don't let us die in vain. Had he heard too often the expert condescension, that Americans only support wars that are quick and easy to win? There is no way to prove who is right until America is more sorely tested: Do we provide every lost soldier an honor guard through every living room only because...
...count on to make his life easier: Yasser Arafat's knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; and the fact that Arafat's radical Islamic opposition shares the Israeli leader's distaste for the Oslo peace process. Sharon, a month after declaring Arafat "irrelevant" and trying in vain to convince the U.S. to do the same, nearly found himself in the uncomfortable position of having to renew political negotiations with Arafat before two incidents saved him. First, a boatload of weapons apparently meant for the Palestinian authority was intercepted by the Israelis. Then, Wednesday, a Hamas raid killed...
...deficit to 64-62 on a third-chance layup with 21 seconds left, but the Crimson played out the remainder of the game to perfection. In an impressive display of keep-away, Peljto, Tubridy, Dunham and Cserny cycled the ball around the perimeter as the Huskies tried in vain to foul. Dunham was finally caught, but not before 19 seconds had run off the clock. Her two free throws iced the game...
...attacks themselves that made him the international center of gravity for Islamist anti-American rage - it was the U.S. response, which was to name Osama bin Laden as the most dangerous man in the world and fire off a slew of cruise missiles onto two continents in a vain, almost panicky attempt to eliminate him and destroy his assets. Radical Islamists everywhere who might once have raised a skeptical eyebrow at the lofty pretensions of bin Laden's rhetorical tilting at the U.S. suddenly treated him with new respect. It was as if the scale of the Clinton administration...