Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor Minister Walter Bailey Madeley was helpless. The unrecognized native unions are not subject to anti-strike emergency regulations applicable to white workers in recognized unions. Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts intervened. By decree he forbade native workers to strike, made all labor disputes subject to compulsory arbitration...
...strip, "Miss Fury" the General is frustrated by Brazilian guerrillas in his campaign to open the way for an Axis invasion. In his latest battle the Brazilians destroyed his soldiers' tanks, guns, helmets and even their belt buckles with metal-dissolving pellets, leaving the bewildered Germans unarmed and helpless under a hail of arrows...
...deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost and helpless...
...Italy awaited the Pope's Christmas Day broadcast. A fortnight previously police had stood by helpless to interfere when thousands gathered before St. Peter's at Papal services, chanting: "Long live peace!" Embarrassed, the Italian press had tried to explain away the demonstrations as "obviously a tribute to the Pope's efforts for peace before...
...deaf are enjoying a cycle of prosperity now, but they still have one loud if not vociferous complaint. The U.S. Government does not consider them eligible for the armed forces, classifying them as 4-F, along with the blind, the physically helpless, and the mentally deficient. There are countless tasks in the Army & Navy which the deaf could perform, and they are eager to serve their country. Their young men are as able-bodied as any of our soldiers, with the sole exception that they cannot hear, but does one fire a cannon with one's ears? They...