Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Against the Marines' determination that their female reserves shall have no nickname, even a moonshee (Urdu for language teacher) is helpless...
...Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which still persisted in helpless defense...
...concerned, the OPA has been their No. 1 enemy. . . . The present system of price fixing on food products has all the elements of a national scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk of inflation seemed to Mr. Sexauer just a "bogeyman to induce a nation to accept social reform, regimentation, limitation of opportunity and incentive...
...seven weeks of May and June, had lost 3,595 aircraft, the Russians 987. Just how to evaluate these claims, the outer world did not know.* If literally true, they indicated that actions larger than any announced to the public had been in progress, that the Luftwaffe was helpless and decimated, that the Germans had no chance of survival, much less of victory, in Russia...
...finest composers and singers of Negro music in the U.S. is the wife of a Lynchburg, Va. overall manufacturer. Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood. But when she cuts loose on a blues or a "shoutin' " spiritual, she gives the effect of a New Orleans barrelhouse contralto...