Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turks' reaction to Teheran was the strongest testimony to the success of that conference. They were at last convinced that Britain and the U.S. would not split with Russia, leave a helpless, empty-handed Turkey in the middle. When President Roosevelt sent five planes to Adana to bring Inönü and his party to Cairo, the Turks were not exactly happy, but they were ready...
Reuters, the British news agency, was deeper in the black books of the U.S. press than it had ever been before. And that was saying something. OWI's Elmer Davis was madder than he had ever been, but apparently just as helpless...
...Breaks Me Down. . . ." Patton started to leave the tent, wheeled when he heard the man sobbing, ran back and hit him again. The medical commander was helpless. He accompanied Patton to another tent. The General asked more questions of wounded men. Then he broke into a sob: "I can't help it, but it breaks me down to see you brave boys...
...hard beset by juvenile delinquents. In Berkeley they caused a $35,000 fire. In one Oakland theater they caused four fires on four successive nights. Some exhibitors write the parents of offenders, but "in the more exclusive suburbs they are fearful of offending... " Ushers, usually kids themselves, are usually helpless. One Cleveland manager "turned the tide" by exhibiting in his lobby a ravaged seat under the slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats, opened purses in the dark, and pocketed...
...subconscious jealousy of Novelist Davis, froths out a shelfload of bestsellers. As Author Hopkins' royalties soar, her husband (John Loder) sinks more & more to the status of a cute trick to have around the house. He falls in love with Miss Davis, who refuses to betray her helpless, foolish friend. In early middle age Miss Davis has a discreet affair with a naval officer ten years her junior. But he prefers Miss Hopkins' daughter, runs away with her, leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born...