Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mettle. Rigidly keeping to his share of the starvation rations, he did much more than his share of the work, again & again saved them from foundering by skillful seamanship. When they landed at the island of Tofoa to replenish their water and food, the natives soon saw they were helpless and attacked. Only one of their men was lost in the getaway. Thereafter, from fear of savages, they gave many an inviting island a wide berth. As starvation knuckled down on them, mutinous voices muttered, but Bligh always silenced them, kept on. Cannibalism was never even suggested but when they...
...leper outposts around this old world there are men and women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying of the moat desperate wants of the most needy and helpless people on the face of the earth. A warm blanket for a grandmother shaking with cold and fever ($2); sandals for bleeding feet (50?); milk for the little children and the very ill; garden seeds for a leper man so that he may raise his own vegetables-perhaps with...
...over the holidays at 1:30 p. m. after a furious round-the-clock session which began the afternoon before. Battling every clause of the Government's bill to saddle the British taxpayer with the national debt of bankrupt Newfoundland (TIME, Dec. 18), the Laborite-Liberal Opposition were helpless to oppose the Government's Conservative steamroller but finally grew so angry that the House resounded with homely English abuse. "You dirty dog!" shouted Laborite Aneurin Bevan at Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who was driving the steamroller. "You swelled head...
...would do well to mark this book in passing. In 320 pages Author Brunngraber, with painstaking Teutonic methodism, has compressed a significant world-history of the past 51 (1880-1931). An alleged novel, Karl and the 20th Century focuses from time to time on its little hero's helpless struggles to keep his head above the flood; but Author Brunngraber's dogged attempt toall the ground results in a kaleidoscope of fact which sometimes dizzies, sometimes dulls the reader's attention. With more statistics to the squarehead paragraph than are contained in a chapter of John...
...patient revered. One day he terrified the doctor by appearing with a revolver in his hand. But van Gogh only laughed awkwardly, went to his room and shot himself in the stomach. As he lay dying he said to Theo: "Did you ever know such an awkward and helpless fellow as me? I can't even manage to use a revolver properly...