Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 19-year-old Francis Trudeau fell ill in New York with tuberculosis, the disease was still a deadly mystery, romanticized in such plays as La Dame aux Cornelias, but dreaded by its victims and misunderstood by helpless doctors. That was in 1865, and since there were no nurses trained to care for TB victims, Francis Trudeau's 16-year-old younger brother Edward took over the task of sitting with him in a stuffy, tightly sealed room and administering useless cough medicines for four months until Francis died...
Another group of students pried open a basement window and unlocked one of the doors facing the crowd. Police were helpless as the throng surged forward...
...bear heavily upon future policy. Eisenhower and the 83rd Congress swung the nation off one course, started it on another. But it is by no means committed to the new direction. It can swing back, or it can fall into a two-year interlude where the President is relatively helpless and Congress breaks into four warring groups: right-and left-wing Democrats, right-and left-wing Republicans...
Frittering Away. Scrupulous to avoid any show of interference, U.S. diplomatic officials watched in helpless silence last week as the squabbling Vietnamese frittered away the few months' pre-election "breathing space" that was the only asset anyone in the non-Communist world could claim for the Geneva settlement. But Montana's able Senator Mike Mansfield, returning from a two-month survey of Indo-China, said publicly what officials could only mutter privately...
...belongs to the courts along. But the length of time they have been under indictment is quite another matter. While a man in such a position suffers no direct financial loss, he is deprived of a chance to produce, and therefore advance, in his field. He is also a helpless target for anyone who wants to throw a careless charge in his direction. Since the case has not been brought to trial, he has no chance to show his innocence. And in the eyes of most of the public, the very fact of an indictment implies that...