After 20,000 fruitless crosses, Borlaug heard about a Japanese dwarf variety that might confer its strength and stockiness.
The desperate rescue operation reached the miners after assorted mechanical setbacks and a long, excruciating period of silence from below since Thursday when the noise of rescue operations rendered fruitless any attempt at hearing tapped signals from the men.
A small boy who heard about the fruitless search slipped into the ice house during the noon hour and soon emerged with the watch.
Her hearing was short, and fruitless.
Finding a copy of the album proved to be fruitless, and the thought of getting to hear a copy of his much mysticized second LP Outside Inside seemed as likely as getting Jai Alai on the moon.
After months of fruitless e-mail exchanges, the city held a hearing on the matter last Tuesday.
Attempts to lose, hide or even burn the offending volume prove fruitless, and soon both Amelia and Sam are seeing – and hearing – the distinctive "Ba-Ba-DOOK" everywhere; a hideous stranger in their increasingly haunted house.
Mr. Jacobson, about to give up the hunt after two fruitless hours peering into the empty ocean, said he had heard about problems between surfers and bow fishermen, but that things had been better lately.
A final stop at Temple Baptist Church, where they'd heard food was being handed out, turned out to be fruitless.
The first 10 years were, he says, a fruitless trek around the world, visiting garages in the middle of nowhere to hear crazy pitches from father-and-son rocket design teams.
Even from the clifftop, it is possible to hear the hunters' voices and the thrashing of tail fins as their prey make a final, fruitless bid for freedom.
