Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Josephine (Now in November) Johnson's first novel since 1937 is a study in passive, helpless anguish. Its subject: the cold fear, the ultimate spiritual paralysis, which lovelessness can create. Its victim: a shy, adopted child named Edith...
Then, to the accompaniment of eerie music and the sound of loud explosions, a succession of breathless news announcers pleaded with Parisians not to panic. "You are helpless in any case," they added. They begged listeners to remain calm "even if you see sudden flashes in the sky, hear claps of thunder; if the earth quakes, lights fail, electric motors stop and you sense . . . loss of equilibrium...
...Just after sunset, by the light of a young moon, the helpless Americans were led from their barracks. . . . When they reached the beach, their hands and feet were tied, they were blindfolded and finally ordered to face the ocean. Japanese soldiers, three platoons strong, stood six paces to the rear with rifles and machine guns. . . . Then the command was given that ended the lives of 96 Americans...
Hiroshima's Mayor Kihara took up the plea. "You look like messengers sent by God," he hissed politely. "We are helpless like babies. We cannot walk alone. The revival of our city depends on articles you write. . . . Let us make a firm and eternal bridge over the Pacific that will not be destroyed by any bomb...
...worst wounds is a severed spinal cord. If it does not kill him, it paralyzes a man below the injury, makes him helpless as a baby. World War II left the U.S. with some 2,000 such men. Doctors call them paraplegics; but they have less euphemistic names for themselves. At one time or another, nearly every paraplegic wishes he were dead...