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During the war, Kovner had vainly tried to defend the Jewish ghetto in Vilna, Poland, and at the war's end he banded together with other ghetto-defenders and partisans.
But I looked all through Africana , hoping vainly they'd spelled his name "MacPherson" or that there was a list of black Pulitzer Prize winners.
In a series of long interviews with me a year ago (for Worth magazine), I tried, vainly, to get Arthur to tell me how his ideas about increasing returns have encouraged a new strain of economic investigations.
The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.
Brother Purvis strained the buttons on his vest as his face purpled and he growled (as Samson vainly resisting Delilah), “She tempts me, Lord!