Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utility progress under a Labor ministry, Lord Birkenhead remarked: "The present ministry is for state ownership in the abstract. Yet this same government is helpless to take any steps in that direction...
From here on it was merely a succession of passes, laterals, and runs by the first team, that had the helpless seconds completely bewildered. The Batch-elder-to-Mays lateral pass combination was good for two touchdowns, while White and Newhardt both tore off 50 yard runs for touchdowns, and Mason went over twice on end plays...
...Just let any of our Boston women catch some man "swan upping" in our parks! ... Of course at Maidenhead I was helpless, except that my blood boiled. Shame on you, TIME, for not denouncing "swan upping"! MARY ELIZABETH ROBBIN...
...Whereas under prevailing economic conditions unorganized workers are commonly helpless, it is necessary that they have full freedom of trade union organization . . . for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...
...other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes emerged from the depth. Always helpless where mechanical resourcefulness is needed, the Vagabond made a few futile attempts at digging with a jack handle and then sat down on the running board to await in patience the arrival of a lift to the next town...