Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against coronary thrombosis and embolism attacks, doctors used to be fairly helpless; standard treatment was to dope the patient, give him oxygen to relieve the strain on the heart and a drug to relax the blood vessels. In most cases, patients survived one attack, succumbed to a second...
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, tough and able pal of Hermann Göring (and like him a onetime drug addict), never made any bones about his ruthlessness in war, except for the standard excuse of "military necessity." He was proud of having ordered the bombing of helpless Warsaw and of surrendered Rotterdam. He was "very happy" for the opportunity to try to blast Coventry...
...exhibits an exquisite gentleness toward children, the sick and the maimed, and even the humblest animals. He spares one prospective victim (a new Chaplin protege named Marilyn Nash), when he learns that she is the widow of a disabled war veteran and shares his burning pity for the helpless. He fails to close his deals with certain other clients too. He makes several brilliantly funny attempts on the life of rambunctious Martha Raye, but she was born lucky and is plainly indestructible. He nibbles interminably toward the heart and pocketbook of rich, socialite Widow Isobel Elsom...
Being the only girl among so many men is a lot of fun, coos Miss Cushner. "They're always so obliging. Why, whenever I get lost in this huge place, I just stand and look helpless, and someone always comes over to give me a hand...
Created by a solemn, helpless-looking Liverpudlian named Harry Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...