Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually the kuru sufferer is completely helpless, unable to swallow, capable of only slight movement and feeble grunts. In a native hut, he dies of starvation, infected bedsores or pneumonia. At Okapa's hospital, Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas have prevented bedsores, and eliminated starvation as a cause of death by intravenous feedings. And still the patients die. No authentic kuru victim has recovered...
...converted every isolated colonial's farmhouse, every road, every French-employed work gang into a guerrilla front line. A bout of fellagha Mau-Mauism periodically drives the local European population into a frenzy. Whole villages go on "gook-hunts." Says Servan-Schreiber: "The police and the army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them lying in the street ... It is a phenomenon like avalanches in snowy...
...mood is hushed. A guitar is strummed lightly, and as the lullaby begins, a young mother sings in sweet, loving tones to her helpless child...
...centers to get one new mark for each old one. No one was allowed to carry away more than 300 of the new marks (about $16); the rest was payable after a six-day wait. Unable to cross the border, businessmen and bankers in West Berlin found themselves in helpless possession of millions of East German marks that by nightfall had become worthless...
...fire burns down her house, and she winds up in the middle of a beaver pond, riding on the back of a bobcat. On top of all this, Perri will probably not get much sympathy from the critics. But it will be a crying shame if she and her helpless colleagues don't get some vigorous sympathy from the A.S.P.C.A...