Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maneuvers on the Border. Last week the confusion might have pleased Gavam, for it might persuade the Shah that only Gavam could form a stable government. And the confusion was certainly pleasing to Russia; Persia's series of helpless, do-nothing governments permitted Russia to pose as the hope of Persia's wretched twelve million. When they occupied Azerbaijan during and after World War II, the Russians made a fine show of constructiveness. Their puppet government paved some streets in Tabriz, opened a radio station, started land reforms...
...high points-Thunderhead's sensuous, rushing and wheeling courtship dance with the night-sleek Crown Jewel, and the heartbreaking, helpless panic of the two horses when the mare has foundered belly-deep in sucking mud-present unused possibilities of much greater suspense and excitement than the man-made climax of the trotting heats...
...Europe becomes more helpless, the Americans are compelled to become farseeing and responsible, as Rome was forced by the long decline of Greece to produce an Augustus, a Vergil . . . Something important is about to happen, as if the wonderful jeunesse of America were suddenly to retain their idealism and vitality and courage and imagination into adult life, and become the wise and good who make use of them; the old dollar values are silently crumbling, and the selfcriticism, experimental curiosity, sensibility and warmth [of America] are on then-way in. For Americans change very fast...
...Consider Philadelphia. Let's imagine this great city as it drags through the second or third month of secret siege . . . There have been a couple of epidemics of dysentery. People have clogged the cancer clinic with strange swellings. Hospital corridors are full of trichinosis patients lying bloated and helpless. Some of the smaller plants have shut down. And the big ones have slowed to a production pace worse than a shutdown. This, because of a new kind of common cold which leaves its victims weak and shaky for a month-when it doesn't flash into fatal pneumonia...
...should Christian civilization leave itself at the mercy of an aggressor who does not care where his bombs fall? The commission bowed to the ancient doctrine of "military necessity." If a nation which renounced The Bomb would be helpless before an enemy that did not, "then retention of the atomic bomb in a nation's armory is justifiable on the ground of necessity and indeed . . . obligatory. We must add that it might well prove to be a powerful deterrent also...