Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long years! For how long a period has the Federal spending been kept above the $7,000,000,000 line? For three long years! For how long a period has the Chief Executive called upon the Congress to pass a new tax bill increasing the tax burden upon a helpless nation...
...helpless as the Bank is today, the country will be better off without change if the Bank is only "reformed" to the extent of making it a political shuttle-cock. The strike and M. Blum's program have far-reaching effects in other than the national sphere, for France is essential to the delicate balance of European peace. Let there be one misstep--in connection with the Bank of France or elsewhere--then the whole foundation of European polity and security will crumble away...
Under the gallery stares of frowsy jobless, who for eight days had camped on the floor holding mock sessions (TIME, May 4), New Jersey's reassembled Assembly last week shunted the relief problem back to helpless municipalities. It passed a bill, approved the same evening by the State Senate, which sets up a commission composed of Governor Harold G. Hoffman and four Republican officials to disburse State relief money if & when available, failed to provide a tax system to raise it, adjourned...
...first lap, had left the Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
...moving days were over. Mr. Howard was a bookish, improvident schoolteacher whose every move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a weak heart. Julian, the only child, was a level-headed youngster who saw through his father's grown-up dignity to the helpless human being behind it. Mr. Howard, full of the intellectual's passion for the land, and a small pocketful of savings, was no match for the hard-headed natives. They sold him worthless stock and too-expensive machinery; he was soon the laughingstock of the countryside...