Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began with a tantalizing British problem: Shipments of U.S. tanks arrived in British ports all assembled and tuned up. But before they could be driven away, they had to be "de-slushed" of heavy coats of rust-preventing grease. While they lay helpless at dockside, Nazi bombers could knock them off like sitting ducks...
...came from her lips as if she were saying: "Don't cry, don't cry." Chuck Horner was standing by the door with a grim expression on his face. "I never wanted to capture a town more than this in my life. But now. . . ." He made a helpless gesture...
Return to Reality. What happened after that to Lieut. Lawson and his crew happened also to the crews of the other planes. Battered, in physical agony and in agony of spirit, helpless, harried by Japanese planes searching for them from the air and Japanese patrols racing after them on land, the American flyers were lifted up, comforted and carried to safety by a force they did not understand...
...tried for over a year now to do its job in spite of the obstructionist tactics Mr. Jones has employed. . . For all the full power the President has given the BEW over imports, we are helpless when Jesse Jones, as our banker, refuses to sign checks in accordance with our directives...
...tell you, that's a terrible feeling swinging there as helpless as a turkey with his neck on the block. You feel like you've got targets painted all over you. I waved vigorously, jutting out my teeth at them to look like Tojo, and making other gestures of friendship and victory. I grinned and jabbered at them...