Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look in the February 7 Transcript and see that it was Mr. Benjamin Bowker's, who has worked for Mr. Wolff for years. In fact, the grapevine has been humming of a prospective suit for months. Yet Mr. Wolff has it all figured out that he is a poor helpless fly entangled in a spider's web, and that his decision to sue is an act of martyrdom. Actually, none of his points in support of this view holds water...
...year-old Mary Kincaid lay in bed in her Wildwood, N. J. home while her husband Henry, 84, took care of her. Last week Henry, ill himself, lay down beside her, died. Desperately, Mary Kincaid tried to raise her husky voice in a cry for help, lay there helpless for two days, finally summoned strength enough to rise, totter to the window, beckon in a passerby...
...fearful as these two groups were separately, they were one hundred times worse when they joined forces for a common end. Vag remembered a certain Governor whose favorite occupation was bussing helpless babies. That was innocent enough sport, and after a certain age babies could no longer be bussed in public; but there were certain other ways politicians had of providing for youth which were much more annoying. Just the other day, in a newsreel, Vag had heard a certain be-moustached Galahad from New York throw his hat into the presidential ring with the ominous rally call: "I want...
...Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia to resign simultaneously as prelude to a peace conference. Otherwise, he darkly predicted, "the Tibetan Buddhist supreme masters, without prejudice, pre-direction or favor, will unchain forces and powers whose very existence is unknown to you and against whose operations you are consequently helpless...