Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Sharksman Wise in Tigers of the Sea: "Do sharks attack and kill men? . . . It is my opinion that a shark, except when surprised, attacked or greatly excited, rarely attacks a man whom he does not believe to be dead or helpless. . . . The discussion of all this with experienced fishermen in Nassau led naturally to the old question of what a man should do if he found himself in the water with sharks nearby. All of us agreed that he should kick, splash, yell, and raise all possible commotion but none of us would wish to be held responsible...
...features of the profession, and he wished you success as to your undertaking, and (if I use his exact words) he hoped that you would find a way to cooperate with him in such method as you would jointly find would be to the service of the helpless and afflicted within such province as you felt government should undertake. I deliver the message of the President and assure you it was a source of great pleasure that he understood I was to be here...
...state of mind of this country from August 1914 we entered the war was the state of mind of the helpless observer of a great calamity. The sides formed, the propaganda rained, every day heightened the emotional tension but in this country there was no valid way for an individual to relieve his sense of frustration. There was nothing to do but about and boat the air like the frenzied rooter at a football game nothing to do but join the chorus of that particular world which was your own. And not to conform to one world or another during...
After years of observation and checking up on shark stories. Colonel Wise testifies that there is no fixed answer to the old question whether sharks will attack men. They mostly will not if they are well fed, not excited, not convinced the man is helpless. They mostly will if given a blood scent or if startled by what they think is an attack on them. And different species, of course, have different appetites. Best rule, thinks Colonel Wise, is not to trust sharks...
Harold Hart Crane was born in 1899 in Warren, Ohio, only child of comfortably middle-class parents. His mother and father were always quarreling, separating, making up; little Harold was an agonized and helpless onlooker. He was a sturdy child but extremely sensitive. When he was nine his parents parted; his mother went to a sanatorium and Harold was sent to Cleveland to live with his grandmother. Passionately interested in poetry and not much interested in school, he made few friends there; but he landed his first poem (in a Greenwich Village magazine) when he was 16. When his mother...