Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wellesley, Smith, and Vassar, appeared on television, and sung in the Band concert at Symphony Hall. Plans for the future include weekly informal concerts in the Yard and at Radcliffe, and negotiations are in process to make an album of records. Best of all, the City of Cambridge is helpless--the Pudding bar still ranks as a private club...
...conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension and still more beyond his control. While he nursed the illusion of growing mastery and exulted in his new trappings, he became the sport and presently the victim of tides and currents, of whirlpools and tornadoes amid which he was far more helpless than he had been for a long time...
Merle Tuve, physicist and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, summed up: "The broad problem we are examining is whether our society is now so intensively organized that the individual is becoming helpless and ineffective...
...Critic Clifton Fadiman read Novelist James Farrell's No Star Is Lost and wrote (in The New Yorker): "If his editors will only strap him down tight, shoot him full of morphine, and, while he is helpless, perform some major operations not on him but on his prose, Mr. Farrell's effectiveness will increase, and so will the number of his readers." Either the publishers let Fadiman's prayer go unheeded or Farrell refused to submit to the operation. More than ten years and twelve books later, the Farrell prose is still a better cure for insomnia...
Otherwise, the Crimson was helpless before the better prepared Eli wrestlers. The Blue faced more severe competition than Harvard this season and the Elis, a "rough, tough bunch of boys," according to Butch Jordan, seemed to have benefited from...