Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chute harness slipped up around my neck in a strangle hold, covering the knife in my breast pocket. I was helpless, a perfect target for snipers and I could hear some of them not far away...
Over isolated atolls in the Central Pacific Marine planes flew last week, relentlessly exploiting the helpless position of stranded Japs. In less than two months the Marines had flown 2,330 sorties against Jap-held islands in the eastern Marshalls, peppering them with 1,628 tons of bombs. The Marines were working off some private wrath. The Japs were unlucky enough to be there to catch...
...started up again, streaked through the streets of Herakleion, its two divisional commander's pennants fluttering arrogantly. Past 22 military control posts-guards frozen in salute-sped the limousine, with the helpless divisional commander...
After that Hazlitt devoted himself to Napoleon. "Ghastly, shrunk and helpless," his voice reduced to a "hoarse whistle," Hazlitt ground out a four-volume life of his hero which is now forgotten. Wrote the disillusioned biographer: "I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and practical malignity of man. . . . Hatred alone is immortal...
...switched in 1941 to follow the Roosevelt policy down the line. Since the departure of Arizona's Henry Ashurst in 1941, he was the Senate's best exponent of lush oratory, combined with a delicate irony that was so unanswerably pat that it choked his opposition into helpless gurgles of rage. Fortnight ago, in bitter argument with Missouri's Bennett Clark, he cooed: "My remarks probably creep into his drab life like a gleam of supernal sunshine. I merely want to elevate him to higher planes of thought." When Clark battled it out with Kentucky...