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Word: helpess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups or be escorted as a Date; and all this, which had nothing to do with strength, had no more comprehensible rationale than the last resort of harrassed parents (roughly equivalent to "because I said so," in turn equivalent to "history ordains it," signifying that the parents, helpess to transcend their role as evolutionary functionaries, are merely passing on the lessons of the collective past and present)--"because you're a girl." For the most unfortunate, there were parents like this...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Feminine Is A 4-Letter Word | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...Crimson was demoralized, but not out. That came with 7 seconds left in the period, when Bob Gaudreau's shot hit chip Scammon skating across the crease and bounced past helpess Bill Fitzsimmons for the Burins' fourth goal of the period...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall, | Title: Brown Scores 4 2nd-Period Goals To Top Crimson Hockey Team, 4-1 | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

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