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The protagonist is a young playground director futilely trying to protect the children he supervises from contracting polio.
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And now there is Smith, who waited futilely throughout the first round, returned to the theater Friday and was rewarded.
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Before the market futilely tried to correct in 2008, approximately 37.9% of tax filers, on net, paid no income taxes.
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Kennan, whose writings gave birth to the theory of nuclear deterrence, argued passionately but futilely against the development of the hydrogen bomb.
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Without it your family may be struggling futilely with a guardianship application in a probate court while a Dec. 31 deadline looms.
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In airline security , we might spend less time futilely searching for hidden weapons and instead focus on the real problem of identifying potential terrorists.
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He sought the promise of a friendly, peaceful Germany and a more stable Europe, a prospect which he futilely hoped would permit him to concentrate on Soviet domestic needs.
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"It is unfortunate that, yet again, we are hearing the same tired, unwarranted and groundless allegations that used to be unjustifiably and futilely repeated by the previous U.S. administration, " Khazaee wrote.
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This will come as a relief to the bespectacled hordes who have ever spent time in an eyeglasses store futilely trying on pair after pair of glasses looking for one that fits your face.
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Others tried futilely to launch the Wave.
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Exasperated, he starts hitting out again, wielding his many-thonged whip in an effort to part the flood of humanity, futilely harrying a group of old men as insensible to his blows as they are to the sobs of a little girl lost in the crowd.
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