Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next two sets (6-1, 6-2), Schroeder's all-out attack made Bromwich look almost helpless, but the pace was telling on himself. He let Bromwich win the fourth set, and tire himself doing it, while he got back strength and wind. The final, fifth set Schroeder won easily. The stunned Australian crowd, after seeing its own star beaten, cheered Schroeder for five minutes...
Across the plains, ranchers and cowhands tied bandannas under their Stetsons to protect their ears, pulled on sheepskins and mittens, and began a desperate rescue operation. Horses were helpless in the drifts. Trucks were useless except on cleared roads. But a caterpillar tractor with a bulldozer blade was worth its weight in gold...
Untrippable Trippi. Last week Georgia crunched helpless Auburn 41 to 0, had only Chattanooga and Georgia Tech left. The man who does most to make Georgia go is Charlie Trippi, son of a Pennsylvania coal miner. He has gained over a thousand yards in Georgia's eight games this fall. Tied with the other Bulldog halfback, John Donaldson, as the team's leading scorer, Trippi blocks, kicks and tackles as well as he runs and passes. He runs with legs far apart in a sort of gallop, sometimes jumps in the air just before being grabbed, and flails...
...angry editorial, the nearby Hudson Dispatch declared that a "friendless, helpless stranger" had been jailed for a very poor reason: withholding her identity. Manhattan papers took up the cry. Attorney James A. Major of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that she be given a new trial. Offers of money, clothes and jobs poured in. The clamor got too loud for the sensitive ears of judge and prosecutor...
...Policy. In this Siamese job, he advocated for the inland regions of the country a corps of "junior doctors" to diagnose and prescribe medical treatment for easily-recognizable tropical diseases. This suggestion caused a tremendous blow-off, and was condemned as a plot to lower medical standards and kill helpless natives. Rumbles were heard even from American medical circles. "Five years later," Professor Zimmerman muses, "A large American medical foundation took over, instituted the plan, and got a big hand for it." Similarly, during the early days of the New Deal, he was hooted out of the White House...