Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is not only a war of Italy to subjugate a small and helpless nation in Africa. It is a struggle between two oars. Slowly and painfully, organized society is attempting to abolish the war system and establish the system...
...there are some brilliant spots along the drab, flat thread. It's fun to have a chuckle at pompous, helpless royalty a is "Jubilee," but nobody gets very excited over royalty now-a-days. It's fun to pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve...
...went to Washington thinking that one man might be able to do the job. I found that I was as helpless as a cork in the middle of the ocean...
...home while the flesh & blood candidate around the corner sulked. John got all the electioneering he cared to hear from broadcasts. In the famed "depressed areas" of Britain, where grinding poverty stalks and almost nobody has a radio, local candidates got all too much attention from the enraged but helpless proletariat. "Judas!" roared the miners of Seaham at snowy-crested Candidate James Ramsay MacDonald and broke up his meetings again & again. When Ishbel MacDonald. no longer apple-cheeked but pale with strain, tried to speak for her father, she too was jeered off the platform. So was onetime Engine Greaser...
...conventional sense, A Diary Without Dates is charged with a sense of pain, distress, hysteria, communicates the strain of War more poignantly than many a more pretentious volume. The world in which this girl matured was one where normal patterns had been broken, where men lay helpless and suffering and women carried on essential tasks, where dammed-up emotions exploded in queer bursts of affection or rage. The memorable passages include an incident when the author, in an agony of loneliness, heard lovers in a field at night, crept close to listen; a terrible glimpse of a man whose nose...