Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot went right out in front, holding an 11-6 lead at the end of the first half. In the second half, they walked all over the helpless sailors. The Elephants' star performers were Vic Boullion who tallied 11 points, and Tener Eckleberry who dropped 6 points through the hoop...
...mercy of well-placed mortars and the Marines could not bring their machine guns to bear. Before the order came to withdraw, the Marines were near panic: "This was a distressing sight, and though I myself was more than eager to be away from that spot, I had a helpless desire to do something to stop the flight. ... I couldn't do anything about it because I was caught up in the general feeling...
...Newark, N.Y., a search party finally found six-year-old Anthony Gullo, unharmed but helpless under an icicle he had pulled over on himself. Icicle's weight...
...Seagoing air power . . . had accomplished what land-based air power had failed to do. ... The picture which then existed was that of a greatly superior enemy surface fleet, which included battleships, helpless to advance in the face of a greatly inferior surface fleet, without battleships, which still possessed some seagoing air power. (This should dispose of the statement that we must have battleships if the enemy has battleships...
...cast is sure-fire, Ginger Rogers as a Minsky Melter gone broad A, Cary Grant in a reporter part tailored to his tongue-in-cheek virility, and a newcomer, Walter Slezak, as the type of Brownshirted bully that gestapoes himself into disfavor handily. But even these stalwarts are helpless in a plot that ambles from fantastic nonsense to the borders of poor taste...