Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award the palm to the man who has rammed 4,000,000 cars down the throats of helpless dealers, putting many of them out of business, gone farthest toward bankrupting the country with credit sales of unneeded cars at extravagant prices and got safely away with a boasted billion dollars of net profits...
Last week, against the Detroit Red Wings, Worsley and the Rangers showed both how good and how bad they can be. For two periods the "Broadway Blues" were helpless. The Red Wings scored three times with embarrassing ease. But the Rangers came back to score five times with a demonstration of superb hockey. Lome Worsley was beaten only once more, on a desperate last-minute play. The game ended Rangers 5, Red Wings...
...Dickens' best-documented accounts of disease occur in Bleak House, in which he describes the paraplegia of Grandfather Smallweed, who is "in a helpless condition as to his lower, and nearly so as to his upper limbs," and the senile dementia of his wife, who suffers from "such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into...
...realize that the shoe maker's bench was a symbol of his unhappy past and of what now would be called his neurosis, and he consented to destroy it. But before long he was demanding it again, and this time the relapse was permanent. He became a "helpless, inarticulately murmuring, wandering...
...bewildered yet sympathetic husband of a few days, Mark Stevens is less successful. In the role of the concerned but helpless bystander, he is barely convincing. Although Stevens is a trifle too All-American and anxious, his voice as narrator in some flashback scenes is far more pleasing. Leo Genn is appropriately noble as the young healer who must fight his boss over methods for Miss de Havilland's cure. He is strong, intelligent, calm, and quite impressive...