Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China may soon be forced to drop out of the war unless given substantial help; 3) Britain and Russia are both likely to drop out of the war as soon as Germany is finished, leaving the U.S. to fight Japan alone; 4) in that case, the U.S. will be helpless to intervene as its former Allies divide up the world at the peace table; 5) the failure of Britain's 2,000,000-man army in India to oust 60,000 Japs from Burma already indicates Britain's lack of determination...
...Government as an employer could afford to pay any amount, for the Government as a wartime customer needed all the coal the miners could dig. After a suitably decorous interval WLB would approve the new contract (retroactive to April 1), and the mines would be returned to the helpless operators, the contract a fait accompli. (No tears fell for the operators: a February price increase, approved by OPA, took care of added pay for the sixth working...
This was a great week for John L. Lewis; a bitter hard week for President Roosevelt; and a week of shame, dismay and helpless wrath for the U.S. people...
...people and their press wallowed in a bitterly helpless wrath exceeding anything since Pearl Harbor. If people had been complacent, they were not now; if they had hated the Jap before, no word was strong enough for their feeling now. From the staid New York Times to the most violent yellow journal, the editors laid on their most desperate adjectives, and none was stronger than the people's feeling. Some people, notably Congressman Ham Fish, even demanded that the U.S. take its turn at cold-blooded killing by reprisals against Japanese prisoners. (Such proposals were as stupid as they...
Last week the U-boats' return to the American seaboard was announced. Atlantic skippers told of twelve-hour running fights. Now Doenitz sent his raiders hunting in multiple packs. His U-boats attacked in waves-first to disrupt escorts, then to bore in among the helpless merchantmen for the kill. To supplement the work of the U-boats was a still-powerful German surface fleet, reportedly moved from Norway fjords, possibly operating again against Atlantic convoys...