Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he had finished, there was a silence, and then they both began to shake with helpless laughter...
...along Mt. Auburn Street. Vag knew there was no use trying to escape; this was not the kind of wind one could clude by retreating' to the books and pipes of one's study. And Vag, the competent and worldly, suddenly felt very incompetent and unworldly--even rather helpless and just a little bit afraid...
...miles of Detroit streets not a streetcar or bus moved for four days. Industrial plants on the sprawling city's outskirts, chockablock with defense orders, were slowed down because some employes could not get to work. Traffic was disrupted, accidents increased. Detroiters howled with wrath, but were helpless. They thumbed rides, went to work on roller skates, on bicycles-built-for-two (see cut). A.F. of L. and C.I.O. were fighting for control of the transit workers, and while they fought Detroit got along as best it could...
...father who beat his wife & children. (Said the patient: " 'e took a great 'obby in knockin' mother about.") In World War I, the patient had a chance to "retaliate" against his savage father by shooting at Germans. But in an air raid he is helpless, there is no one he can attack. Other troubles helped to break down his morale: 1) his wife; 2) infected teeth...
Leon Henderson was helpless. Most cotton mills last week were ignoring the retroactive feature of OPACS' price ceilings on gray goods, were billing at the old higher prices. Some furniture makers were still defiant of "jawbone" price control, as Chrysler had been (TIME, July 7). The price of cotton rose 3/4? to 15.21? a pound, a new eleven-year peak. Commodity price indexes paused on their upward flight, but briefly. Montgomery Ward's big fall & winter catalogue came out with 70% of the items showing higher prices than last spring, and a hedge clause on all prices...