Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much mind taking my chances on land," TIME'S William H. Chickering wrote from Guadalcanal last week, "but in a landing boat, all snuggled together in a large, helpless mass for the Japs to shoot at-oh, brother...
...Long Haul. The price was not exorbitant: without bearings, the mechanized German war machine eventually would be helpless. But the cost was high enough to elicit a spate of explanation. Said the chief of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command, Brigadier General Frederick L. Anderson: "The entire works are now inactive. ... It may be possible for the Germans eventually to restore 25% of normal productive capacity." President Roosevelt implied that the raid was worth while. The chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy...
...declaration sank in, it became clear that this was the greatest tactical advance politically made by the Republican Party in years. For once, the party had not set itself up as a helpless punching bag for Franklin Roosevelt. Temporarily, at least, it bound up all quarrels within the party. And it put the next move for the enunciation of a U.S. foreign policy squarely up to the Democrats...
That night, on scores of airdromes, pilots and crews compared notes, adduced new facts and reappraised some old ones about comparative German and Allied air strength. One fact was paramount. At the place and time of this particular test, the Luftwaffe was helpless; Allied air power was supreme...
...bomb struck the Roma. The crew of the helpless R.A.F. plane saw the Roma quiver, rise slightly in the water, belch smoke from her 'midships superstructure. By good aiming and luck, the bomb had touched off a powder magazine. The forward turrets with their six 15-in. guns nodded and crumpled. The hull broke, made a great V. Twenty-one minutes after the bomb hit the Roma, she sank. She was the first battleship ever sunk at sea by bombing alone...