Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to defend themselves that they recently decided at The Hague to revive the Oslo Convention of 1930 under which they were all to have lowered tariffs among each other. In principle the Great Powers too are strong for such good neighborliness, in practice their statesmen feel helpless to down either tariffs or rearmament, and so last week they played up the Oslo Group benignly...
Under Emperor Haile Selassie the populace of Ethiopia were armed almost to a man. The Italians have disarmed almost every native in Addis Ababa. Therefore when blackshirt squads of Fascist militia proceeded after the bombing to retaliate by shooting up the town, its disarmed, comparatively helpless citizens, accustomed always to giving as good as they got, became bitterly incensed at the white men's behaving in a manner so "unfair"- even if the Fascists were striking back because their Viceroy had 38 slugs...
...would not cut, and the horrible effect of shells- from the guns of the 60 tanks that fought with the [Leftist] infantry in the Brihuega battle-bursting in and against these rock piles made a nightmare of corpses. The small Italian tanks, armed only with machine guns, were as helpless against the medium-sized [Madrid] Government tanks, armed with cannon and machine guns, as Coast Guard cutters would be against armored cruisers...
...Soon thereafter the nation was told by a judicial Pronunciamento that although the Federal Government had thus been rendered powerless to touch the problem of hours and wages, the States were equally helpless; and that it pleased the 'personal economic predilections' of a majority of the Court that we live in a nation where there is no legal power anywhere to deal with its most difficult practical problems-a no man's land of final futility...
...screen stars Paul Muni and Luise Rainer; directors Lewis Milestone and Frank Tuttle; producer Kenneth Mac-Gowan. In reply last week, 98 U. S. writers signed a manifesto against General Franco. Declared they: "We cannot keep silent when war becomes a slaughter of the unarmed, the innocent and the helpless. . . . We condemn the deliberate bombing of hospitals, playgrounds, orphan asylums, relief stations and breadlines, and the cowardly and cruel bombardment of Madrid...