Word: availability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laboratory at London's St. Mary's Hospital seemed downright dull. But he was nothing if not dogged. He was 47 years old, and he had spent 20 years trying to find something to kill the microbes that cause infections in man, especially in wounds. To no avail; he found a substance in human tears that killed some germs, but not the important ones...
When he got reserpine last summer, Dr. Tasher made his test as rigorous as possible. He chose patients in whom all the approved treatments-and others now discarded-had failed to bring lasting improvement. They had got as much psychotherapy as the short staff could provide-all to no avail...
...King's murder. (Pridi has since turned up in Peking, leading a "Free Thai" movement blessed by the Communists.) In the years that followed, successive courts of inquiry tried to fix the blame for the King's death on other guilty parties to no positive avail...
...wrongdoing. It was on this motion that the McCarthyites based their fondest hopes; Dirksen had talked confidently of 30 or 35 favorable votes. While the clerk called the roll, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt pranced up and down like a cheerleader, but to no avail. The resolution was defeated, 66 to 21, and the handwriting was on the wall...
...Those girls really appreciate learning something new," she said, beaming. "But they usually become hardened after a year--I guess they find other interests." Miss Clarke has suggested extending the gym requirement, but to no avail. She is now resigned to the fact that "Radcliffe does what Harvard does--regardless...