Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relieve distress. . . . There is prac tically no limitation on the appropriating power of Congress except that which is imposed by conscience and a sense of duty. ... I would hide my face in shame if I held that there is no power save that possessed by those who are helpless to face the storm and peril...
...action. The hail of shell-splinters flying into the conning tower thrice wounded Rozhestvensky. Soon no one knew who was in command of the Russian fleet. All that could be done was to follow the ship ahead, until it sank or fell out of line, turning in helpless circles. By nightfall (the action began at 2 p. m.) the Russians were trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most of the Russian ships had had enough, struck their colors. Rozhestvensky...
...water. Schools in the rest of town were closed so 40,000 homeless could be bedded, fed and inoculated against typhoid. Not all The Bottoms' occupants got away safely. A house with five screaming people in it went sailing down the Ohio as onlookers stood helpless on the bank. The Norfolk & Western abandoned service when floods east of the city washed out the right of way at Clear Creek, near the Little Miami River. Other lines were soon out of commission because the fine new Union Station is in old Mill Creek Valley and tracks were deeply submerged...
...emotional and intellectual activities of the victim, the condition is the greatest mystery of psychiatry. The spirit tries to run away from reality. The tortured soul attempts to hide. The victim loses his will power, his ability to concentrate, his memory, bis judgment. Extreme cases become more abject and helpless than sick infants. About 10,000 of the 40,000 schizophrenic cases who develop in the U. S. each year acquire wild, paranoiac ideas of grandeur or of persecution. About half the new cases are merely too scatter-brained and gloomy to be allowed at large. U. S. doctors have...
...There, in 1920, the Barabas family from Hungary found refuge, while Papa Barabas tried to find work in his trade as a furrier. They were an ambitious, warmhearted, restless outfit. Anna, the oldest girl, was emotional, observant, quick to understand other people's troubles but a little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry. Her young brother Jani dived into the strange world of French school life, compensating with his intellectual triumphs for the bewilderments and pain of his social failures...