Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against this combination the Great Compromiser, Speaker Sam Rayburn, was helpless. In three riotous days of debate in the House, the farm bloc hammered the Administration to its knees, as the lobbyists sat smugly, warily watching in the galleries, calling for floods of wires from back home in the district of any Representative who weakened, or thought of the war. The bill passed, 205-to-172, with provisions pegging parity at what amounted to 112%, and raising the floor under prices (by Government crop loans) from 85% to 90% of parity...
...worker . . . that she has more than 300 hours to her credit already and can do certain types of work which newcomers are not permitted to undertake." At Columbia Hospital in Washington, Nurse's Aid Louise Hopkins, from 9 to 4: makes beds, takes temperatures, feeds helpless patients, carries bedpans, fills water bottles and ice pitchers, runs errands, sits with postoperative cases, listens to beefs. After that she does chiefly paper work as captain of aids. The Hearst press last week reported the Hopkinses were still getting "fabulous" wedding presents from all over the world, described...
Doom Deferred. Huge and helpless in the slow swells, the hulk of the Yorktown did not sink. Buckmaster ordered tugs and salvage vessels. The next day 160 picked men reboarded the carrier. They worked all night pumping out holds and cutting guns from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was standing by to furnish power for the pumps. The next noon a Jap sub launched two torpedoes into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken...
...outbreak of the First World War, the British allowed their technically trained men to be sent off to the front practically to a man. Almost immediately they discovered their mistake and had to begin dragging them back for the production army without which any fighting army is completely helpless...
...combat scenes are better, because battling machines and anonymous faces under stress carry an impact no self-conscious actor can give. When enemy planes swirl like gulls to machine-gun a helpless, bailed-out pilot, or when the screen is hammered full of recoiling guns, pressure dials, the disciplined metal of the air, and spasmodic twisted faces, Wake Island becomes a moving effort to record an action on a heroic scale...