61.  Survivors described a scene of horror amid their desperate efforts to escape.

62.  The World Trade Organization was deadlocked Saturday in desperate efforts to appoint a new director-general, raising the possibility of a damaging leadership vacuum.

63.  In fact, the lawyer told the court, Stagg confessed to a fictitious murder in a desperate effort to please the policewoman.

64.  In desperate efforts to provide medical care for their sick children, parents usually exhaust their meagre resources and end up even poorer.

65.  In an ever more desperate effort to attain the spirit, the couple subjected their victims to more and more grisly rituals.

66.  In the centre, groups of soldiers stole cars in their desperate efforts to flee.

67.  Boss Romantsev sent on both their substitutes in a desperate effort to change the game.

68.  Desperate efforts by political parties to attract public interest have failed.

69.  The Sri Lankan government made a desperate effort late on Monday to persuade the Australian authorities to come to a compromise solution.