Word: helplessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...promote all measures to improve the health and social conditions of the people ... to support as a general rule free enterprise and initiative against state trading and nationalization of industries." Quickly changing the subject, he bitterly assailed the Labor Government with vacillating in Palestine, leaving India's "helpless millions" under "what new power...
Allen G. Lynch, 43, a Pittsburgh lawyer, drank himself out of his practice. After several hospital attempts at a cure failed, he wound up in helpless seclusion oh a friend's farm. His estranged wife sued the Mutual Life Insurance Co. for benefits under his disability policies. Said Judge Claude T. Reno, of the state superior court, in rejecting the claim...
Tito decided to provide martyrdom. For the Archbishop had become the only spokesman for Yugoslavs, rendered voiceless and helpless by the OZNA (Tito's secret police). People knelt when Stepinac passed through the streets...
Communists, knowing that the Government would have to oppose squatting, and thus be in the embarrassing position of Socialists protecting private property-and "luxury" property at that-are pointing every maneuver to draw Government penalties upon helpless, individual, deluded squatters, who constitute the finest martyr material in recent history. The Government, equally aware of this tactic, is sweating to keep the heat off the little folks and turn it on the Communists who conceived and executed the campaign. But that, in turn, lays the Government open to charges of political reprisal for political purposes-a dangerous position to take...
Last week young voices echoed against Trogen's green hillsides, while strong young arms sawed timber and dug cellars for new homes in the village. Trogen's best efforts, Walter Corti knew, would never house more than a few hundred of Europe's helpless thousands. But the thin man was not discouraged. Said he: "The main thing is to get this village going as a model for other countries...