Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil war blocked all currency exchange, and at war's end Franco refused to unblock Ebro's profits. With Barcelona Traction helpless to get at them, it fell far Dehind in interest payments on its sterling bonds. The bond prices tumbled, and Juan March started buying them up at bargain rates...
There it ended, with Referee Ruby Goldstein rushing in to throw his arms around helpless Fusari and save him from further mayhem, just 56 seconds before the fight was scheduled to end. In his dressing room, triumphant Rocky climbed upon a table the better to see and be seen by the mob of reporters and photographers that crowded around. Crowed Rocky, waving a hand for silence: "Don't I do a job on those welterweights? . . . especially salamis from Jersey, who are my special meat...
...Mexico villagers hospitalized last week (a ten-year-old boy at Taos, a 37-year-old man at Albuquerque) need not share the fate of the helpless millions slaughtered by bubonic plague in the past. At week's end, both were recovering handily, the boy treated with streptomycin and sulfadiazine, the man with penicillin and aureomycin...
...Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst legend: "Unspeakable sadness...
...writers, answered all questions in the first minute of the first round. He launched a whistling left that staggered Bolanos and drew blood from his mouth. In the second round, a jolting overhand right almost closed the challenger's left eye. Thereafter, Bolanos stumbled around the ring, as helpless against Williams as a matador fighting a bull with a knife & fork...