Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same picture in all parts of occupied Germany which I have seen and where I have talked to Germany's little people. When the Nazis left their towns and villages a world came to an end for them. Leaderless, helpless, they watched the Americans come in. As a mass they did not know what to do. Without newspapers, without radio, without all the thousand and one accustomed details with which the Nazis had organized their daily lives and influenced their daily thought, they slowly began to realize the full scope of the catastrophe which had befallen them, how thoroughly...
...hemorrhage was a big one and Mr. Roosevelt was killed outright. A lesser but still serious break may leave its victim with one side of his body paralyzed, to be helpless for months...
...flaming furnace of a crashed B-25 at a China base came the agonized screams of a dying, 20-year-old sergeant-gunner. Sickened airmen stood around the plane and listened, sobbing in helpless horror. They had tried rescue. As many as six had rushed in, had hauled and tugged, even tried to pull the sergeant loose from his legs, crushed and trapped behind the copilot's seat. They had failed, driven back by the consuming fire...
Died. Harry Langdon, 60, wide-eyed, comic deadpantomimer of Hollywood's silent-film days (The Strong Man, Long Pants, etc.); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Out of a long apprenticeship in carnivals, circuses, tent shows, vaudeville, Langdon evolved his helpless, forlorn, little-man-against-the-world comic style, which was once worth $7,500 a week, later sank to "$22 a week-some weeks...
...chief weaknesses is instability. Reared in Japan's feudal atmosphere, savagely repressed all his life, he is apt to blow up in tight spots, make "banzai" suicide charges, commit harakiri. Victorious, he swells with arrogance and takes his repressions out on helpless prisoners...