Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plague-in earlier times called also the Black Death or the Pestilence-has been one of the great wholesale man-killers of history. Ancient Greece and Rome were helpless against it. In the 14th Century it killed 25 million in Europe, probably another 25 million in China and India. Boccaccio used the plague in Florence as a backdrop and excuse for his Decameron; 300 years later Pepys noted in his Diary many a detail of London's famed plague of 1665. One or two cases a year still show...
...turns out that the two men are utterly helpless ninnies. Without a woman's guiding hand, they would doodle their lives away. Peggy's husband is ready to swap his teaching career for a mess of lettuce; the professor wavers on the brink of suicide. Both are rescued from their weaker natural instincts by the gay, brave, ginghamed Little Woman...
...considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists on disembowel Eric's play, and Eric himself is so helpless a victim of the charm that Mrs. Busch (nicely played by Susan Hayward) leaves...
...bound its standard to give nothing short of the best tutorial, and obliged by University policy to dispense with Economics 10, the Department is helpless. Honors candidates must get along as best they can with non-credit guidance from a busy faculty. A Department conscientious enough to refuse inadequate tutorial should not be penalized by depriving it of its only other means of organized honors instruction. In view of the situation, there seems little reason why Economics should not be permitted to reinstate its course "Thesis for Honors...
Phase III seems about to begin. The West has come back into close contact with the Russians, but not on the Phase I basis. Now the West's eyes are somewhat open and it is no longer helpless before Russian propaganda attacks. Phase III will call for day-to-day shrewdness and forcefulness on specific issues...