Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During room inspection the other day, the inspecting officer was about to mark Randy Phillips down for not making his sack. "The Ghost"saved the day by speaking a helpless word while lost in the white of his sheets. "No more of this," said the inspecting officer, and now Phillips sleeps between two raincoats for contrast...
...Helpless, suffering with the enemy, were hundreds of Micronesian natives against whom the U.S. had no grudge. So U.S. warships recently steamed at night into Wotje lagoon, defying thousands of hate-filled withering Japs. Native guides who had escaped and promoted the rescue attempt were sent ashore to wake the sleeping villagers. Soon a weird flotilla of outrigger canoes was paddled to the warships. More than 700 natives were taken aboard, with their poultry and pigs. The Japs were left on the vine...
...contours of his normally skinny fleet, the Japs knew he would be hard pressed to stave off this assault. To make doubly sure, their southernmost force would charge through Surigao Strait. Either or both of these forces would strive for a chance to pot sitting ducks - the helpless transports off Leyte...
...hero of the people and the confidant of the Generalissimo was Major General Claire Chennault with his small but effective air force; still in China were thousands of U.S. technicians. U.S. aid to China would continue. But there would be a difference, which reporters in China last week were helpless to define. At week's end the Associated Press received this dispatch...
Wrong-Way Pigeon. Part of their professional grief was the helpless frustration of losing hundreds of good shots. In the rush of Dday, many exposures were ruined, many negatives lost. One photographer who landed with paratroopers lost one movie and two still cameras while retreating under fire, barely managed to save another still camera to record the first few days' action. Severely wounded, another was forced to destroy all his exposed films when capture became inevitable...