Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This ends a definite stage of the war as now all the rice, salt, oil and tin are in Japanese hands, and what remains of Burma will make it difficult to support large armies and the hordes of helpless refugees streaming northward. The plane is going...
...things come to such a pass? The Chicago Daily News and the Sun had sniped away interminably at the Tribune, while the really big game-the all-important Senate seat-slipped through. No one had done either the leg work or the straight thinking necessary; the people were left helpless before a blunt fact: of all the 7,897,000 people in Illinois, none but Curly Brooks and Warren Wright were presented for the Republican Senate nomination in this year of great need...
...Cebu, fairest and wealthiest island of the lovely Visayan Sea, lay helpless before the clutch of the Jap. For days the city of Cebu, second largest in the Philippines (pop. 142,912), had been all but deserted. The two movie houses were still showing outdated U.S. films; a few customers still tapped the dwindling supply of beer and whiskey in the Vienna...
Many of the simple, helpless Burmese peasants had fled their farms, depriving the Chinese of guides, carriers and food, but otherwise not aiding the Japs. But some Burmese sold out to the Japs; some actually joined the Jap Army. At night sudden fires set by Burmese traitors betrayed Chinese positions. Burmese guerrillas caught two Chinese soldiers, chopped off their hands. But the Chinese fought on, and the Japs came...
...alcohol, also a solvent without which the chemical industry is helpless. We could ferment it from wheat, barley, or rye, although, through sheer inertia, we stick to molasses, although Germany has been fermenting potatoes for two decades. And only the Axis has bothered to distill it from coal or wood...