Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...
...indeed this analysis seems a fair description of the present system. What Dean West recommends, however, is the relegation of this function of training minds to the preparatory schools. The college would there-upon become less of a disciplinary institution, and more a place of acquiring real education. The helpless feeling which is common to many Freshman during the first months of college life is perhaps the best argument for Dean West's proposal...
...weaker and weaker-and died. The authorities said she died of pneumonia, but I knew better. . . . And as I looked upon the shrouded waxlike figure in the little basswood box surrounded by blossoms that would have matched her budding beauty, I felt as though I was looking upon the helpless victim of a murder, and I solemnly and silently vowed to work, as long as I lived, to wipe out the criminal practice of vac-cination...
...spite of all this the government was looking on indifferently. It was helpless before a parliament consisting of numerous parties and parties within parties. New elections due to insidious propaganda had not ameliorated the situation, and it was impossible to pass a law which would please a majority. Ministry after ministry rose and fell, while strife and bloodshed continued throughout the nation. A communist revolution was openly spoken of. But finally a revolution did come, and a bloodless revolution it was. Instead of a Lenine at the helm, there appeared Benito Mussolini, the man of the hour. Seizure of power...
...Government with many instruments which were absolutely vital for the purpose of conducting the War. When the War broke out, under the shelter of tariffs, those who were menacing this Empire with destruction had equipped themselves with weapons available and adequate for our destruction, while we were left almost helpless for defensive purposes...