Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here in a student house with a guy who spent two years at Auschwitz. He's no here, because most of the students here were in one place or another. Gas chambers and Crematoriums are something more than pictures from Life magazine. Some of the Czechs feel a little helpless that they had to throw in their lot with Russia. The Bohanes I mentioned in the first sentence is no gag name. He's a Socialist who doesn't like the idea of any Russian control here, but like so many Czechs he hates the Germans more than he hates...
What a lot of hay (as they say in Paris), what a lot of commotion! The city was in an uproar. Traffic was at a standstill near the Opera. Police were helpless. Was it another strike? Was it the Communist coup which panicky rumors had predicted for days? Nothing of the kind. The "Catherinettes" were on the march...
...that we are abetting Red propaganda every time we use the term "Communist." . . . A person in our country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...
...class drama which almost succeeds by contrast to the first offering only to father at the final curtain when Coward steps the action dead to allow his here to unwind the lives of the participants. Philip Tonge and Miss Lawrence play off beautifully against each other, but they are helpless in the face of the recurrent Coward tendency to be patronizing to the lower classes...
...these last days the moment came that he had always hoped for. The result was one of the best known hymns in the English language: Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens: Lord, with me abide! When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with...