Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans have acted as louts and barbarians preying on a helpless, suffering people. In this false equation, miscarriages of justice such as the imprisonment of non-Nazis or the cavalier requisitioning of German homes are treated as the vicious equivalent of murdering 6,000,000 Jews...
West Germany's Heinrich von Bren-tano put the difficulty in bold terms. The West obviously did and must support the peoples of Eastern Europe in their attempts to throw off their Russian masters. But just how far could this go, if the West felt helpless to come to their aid with armed force? If East Germany revolted, Von Brentano said, he was afraid that the West German public would want to go to the aid of their compatriots-and thus perhaps bring on retaliation from the Russian army poised on West Germany's borders. Von Brentano...
...movie features half an hour earlier that night. NBC's nightly Tonight, with Steve Allen, has been so badly mauled by competing movies that the network is revamping the show-though, gamely, still on a live basis. What NBC dreads is that it may one day be helpless to accommodate an advertiser on its full national network because too many of its ISO-odd "optional" affiliates will be engrossed by Robert Taylor making love to Lana Turner at peak hours...
...correction of the existing New York mail situation becomes virtually impossible. A Post office for Harvard University falls victim to the same type of disinterest in any sort of problem which might take an excessive amount of study and consideration. Within this framework the local office is quite helpless...
...Globe said: "Never before in a big game has the winning team played the better football in every department of the game or the loser been so helpless to stave off an overwhelming defeat. It was the worst beating the Blue ever has experienced at Harvard's hands and it was a beating which was administered with an exhibition of superior play that was simply overwhelming...