Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculties, and particularly departments, without any control by competent educational dietitians, were encouraged to multiply the dishes on the steam table of the educational cafeteria. No wonder the helpless victims suffered all manner of educational dyspepsia and malnutrition...
...finds one but cannot drive. Grandly tossing out Jacobowsky's luggage, the colonel condescends to take the wheel, and off they go-smack toward the Nazis in order to fetch the colonel's pretty mistress (Annabella-see p. 62). From then on, while the colonel remains majestically helpless, Jacobowsky gets the party out of tight squeezes, ferrets out food, locates gasoline. As the colonel's lady becomes more & more admiring of Jacobowsky, the colonel becomes more & more jealous, issues a challenge, creates an opéra-bouffe atmosphere that makes the trip as much a flight from...
Navy gunners in the harbor were still panting after a German bombing raid. Someone heard the roar of American engines, mistook them for more Germans. An excited ship captain shouted: "Those friendly planes are bombing me!" A gun roared. Hundreds joined the chorus. Helpless planes began tumbling...
...their two great oceans, their enormous productive capacity. Harry Truman, Senator from Missouri, used the words as the basic premise of a report made by his investigating committee this week, in an attempt to get all Americans to realize that, without oil, the U.S. would be militarily and diplomatically helpless...
...Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and a task force somewhere above the North Cape. Hits by the British battleship gave the destroyers a chance to slip in for a torpedo attack, after which the Duke of York pounded the Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers sank her. One destroyer picked up 30 survivors, another six-apparently the only men saved from the Scharnhorst's crew of 1,460. Three British ships had suffered minor damage. The Germans lost their...