Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party-its ranks manned by the generous, the idealistic, the disaffected, the independent; its real bosses, who quietly, adroitly lead it by the nose, a small group of Communists and Communist-liners. And as the hybrid figurehead of this aggregation, adored by the majority, steered by the minority, walks helpless Henry Wallace...
What it boiled down to was this: a weak and divided Western Europe must insist on a helpless Germany, and until Gerrnany recovers Western Europe cannot recover. A strong Western Europe can face (and include) a revived Germany. The first alternative means a Russian victory in the next phase of East-West relations; the second means a Western victory...
...authorities watch the incoming flood of misery with a feeling of helpless dismay. The refugees cannot be housed or adequately fed. They add to the misery, starvation and chaos of Nationalist China. In the North, the Reds still tighten the screws, drive more millions on to the bitter roads of China...
...Philadelphia last week, it would have been better for Beau had he obeyed the laws of physics and fallen down. In the sixth round, Champion Ike Williams (alias the Trenton Tiger) had him backed into a corner, a helpless hulk. Ike punched away until his arms grew weary, then lowered his gloves and looked at the referee as if to say: "Aren't you gonna stop it?' What was holding Beau up? None of the 12,952 spectators knew. Getting no help from the referee, Ike reluctantly went back to pounding his victim. When Referee Charley Daggert finally...
Young Mohamed Reza Shah felt helpless to do much himself. He has not yet won two political reforms he wants: a Senate (provided for in the constitution but never yet created) to check the Majlis; power to dismiss the Majlis and order new elections. Complained the Shah recently: "Here I am-the Shah of Persia-and I have less power than any man on earth. I'd like to have just half the power of the King of Sweden...