Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of the world, bloody, ferocious, who wanted to win. The other was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildcat, who won-after 40 rounds when Nelson, blind and helpless, lurched against the ropes and spat blood into the ringside seats. That was 17 years ago in San Francisco...
Last week, Comte de Broqueville continued: "Belgium would be helpless before another German invasion. . . . The weakness of our present frontier is notorious. . . . The Government must regretfully propose the construction as rapidly as possible of a system of fortresses built on entirely new lines to resist the impact of modern war machinery...
...doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort to herself" this sensitive...
...Helpless with rage, M. Daudet had attacked the man who he thought had turned the Holy See against him-Aristide Briand. Reputedly, Foreign Minister Briand has made an agreement with the Vatican of which one clause is that it shall discourage the obstreperousness of Catholic Royalists in France. As quid pro quo M. Briand is said to have lent his influence upon the side of the Papal candidacy of Archduke Otto for the throne of Hungary (See HUNGARY...
German doctors discreetly remained silent. They know too well the legal, religious and ethical taboos of all countries against taking life. When absolutely helpless against disease, they might let the patient die (easing his pain with drugs if necessary). But to give him a lethal dose...