Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road? The plain citizen watched these and other uproars on the labor scene with helpless anger and dismay. Was this the road to reconversion, 60,000,000 jobs and all the other fine promises of peace...
Labor's attitude seemed to be: "The public be damned; let's get ours." Management, long since disarmed in labor strife, stood by, waiting for Government to do something. Government was almost as helpless; it had no firm policy and no means of stopping strikes, except plant seizures; it would lose even that inconclusive weapon six months after the official end of World War II was proclaimed...
...street to the imposing Mexican Legation, gleaming in white cement. Upstairs, on 60 cots neatly placed in the plushy conference rooms, they drew off their boots, slept and waited for news-news of going home. Downstairs the Mexican Minister to France, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. slightly annoyed but helpless, sat waiting too- for the same news...
Cholera, which raged in Calcutta in May, got out of hand in Chungking in June. China's crowded, noisome wartime capital, which gets part of its water supply from the same river which receives its garbage and sewage (and the rest of its water wherever handy), is almost helpless against the disease. Last week the pestilence was still spreading - 8,000 cases to date, of which about 20% have died...
Eventually Sergeant Hensel will be far from helpless. After operations on all four stumps, he will get artificial limbs and be able to walk again. Last week, still suffering from shock and slightly deaf from concussion, he was thinking of starting a little chicken farm when he is discharged. He told reporters: "This sure changes things a lot . . .I'd make an excellent propaganda photo to end all wars." His dark-haired wife, at the hospital to greet him, said: "We'll get along fine...