Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force (600 men of the 7th Cavalry) into three parts, failed to reconnoiter the terrain, advanced to attack in broad daylight, was surprised and cut to pieces on a battlefield of narrow gullies where his cavalry was helpless. Many of Custer's annihilated group of 225 men never fired a shot...
...land in Heaven thinking that you're there to save helpless people from the savage Fiend. Remember, the Angels have been fighting for a long time (in the last battle, fought in their own country, Satan was routed, forced to take refuge in Hell). And wherever the battle against sin has been fought, Angels, like Americans, have been in there pitching...
...Zale to make the kill. But the heat and his 33 years (eight more than Rocky) began to tell on ex-Steelworker Tony; he weakened badly in the fifth round. Early in the sixth, one of Graziano's swing-&-a-prayer haymakers landed squarely. Suddenly Tony was helpless; his arms dropped and his head jerked back & forth as Rocky hit him at will. After nearly 40 punches, Steelman Zale had not gone down, but he was lying inertly doubled over the ropes, with Graziano hammering him as if he were trying to decapitate him. Referee Johnny Behr pulled Rocky...
...feel cool by watching the seals slither through the blue water. Looking at the monkeys, a zoogoer can conclude that they resemble the family in the apartment downstairs-or a family uncomfortably like his own. Looking at a tiger, he can feel weak, unarmed and humble; at a gorilla, helpless; at an echidna (a mammal that lays eggs), vastly superior. Zoo men have built their exhibits on the proposition that if the proper study of mankind is man, a subsidiary and equally wholesome occupation is the contemplation of the lower animals...
...Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit." The immediate problems of Europe were "food, coal, transport, houses, opportunities for people to have a decent life...