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Word: helplessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course there has to be a woman, and there is, both beautiful and blond, but always hopelessly helpless. When Lon Chaney isn't lurking behind one door for a little game of patty-cake with the young lady, Bela Lugosi is blood-letting in her closet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

...Army patrol pilot operating out of New Guinea saw a torpedo from the Argonaut hit a Jap destroyer with a Rabaul-bound convoy. Other destroyers dropped depth charges. Argonaut porpoised, broke the surface at a sharp angle, was shelled in that helpless position till she sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: End of the Argonaut | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...bells and the drums and cymbals ceased their clamor. Gently moving his hands, the priest led the congregation in a song. Offerings of flowers and sweets on brass plates were made to the deities. Then began a prayer for the life of a scrawny little man, toothless, moneyless, helpless Mohandas Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Fast | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Overwhelming a helpless Dunster team, the Leverett House quintet rolled up a 57 to 10 score at the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon, while Eliot nosed out Lowell and Adams triumphed over Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News From the Houses | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15), Jap surface ships hightailed it out of range of U.S. ships and planes, leaving the Jap transports and their thousands of soldiers to be slaughtered. U.S. aviators later confessed they were sickened at having to bomb that helpless mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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