Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with less money-the workers and the proletariat. We refer to the grave pecuniary embarrassment, the financial crisis which ... is bringing unemployment to every land. . . . Now Winter approaches and with it the long succession of suffering and privation which that season brings, especially to the poor and to the helpless young. Most serious of all, however, is that steady aggravation of the plague of unemployment to which we have made reference. The want of so many families and of their children, if not provided for, threatens to push them (which may God avert), to the point of exasperation...
...When light is turned on, the helpless creature that has been struggling desperately, perhaps for hours, becomes quiet, no sign of life except the brightness of its eyes...
...difficult, psychologically to kill a helpless mouse, how do those natives of northern India and other savages of similar kind, kill their girl babies...
...made life more complicated than ever. All his puzzling problems were solved when the lady's husband shot him. The Baron thanked his stars for his lucky escape and tried to be a better husband, a better capitalist. Within a week, however, he found himself as puzzled, outraged, helpless as poor Karl...
Soon, by a series of forward jerks, the cobra shoved its jaws over the heads of the other two snakes. Its fangs sank home, its venom flowed, the adder and the schaapstecker went limp and helpless. Then slowly down the cobra's jerking, gullet passed frog, snakes and all. proving that in the snake world, victory is to him whose mouth holds most...