Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, the tone of Holland's visit to Chile was somber and serious. President Carlos Ibáñez, bucking an anti-Administration majority in Congress, has been helpless to curb Chile's feverish inflation. Of a comprehensive economic program he offered. Congress passed only a sales tax. Unionists, 520,000 strong (in a country of 6,100,000), reacted to that with strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into...
...after making what seemed like a good analysis of a bad book, urges it upon the unsuspecting reader: "Any book of Faulkner's deserves to be read and considered simply because of what it is about, what is to be found in it." A book in which important but helpless ideas are ineptly roughed up does not necessarily deserve to be read. Any book of Faulkner's no more deserves to be read than any books of Melville's. In short, why read bad books by good authors when there are so many good books left unread...
...saving of the child became almost unbearably moving as doctors and nurses tried one expedient after another to get it breathing; with each failure, tempers became realistically short, and men seemed helpless before the mystery of birth. The musical background, supplied by Victor Young, was a triumph of unobtrusive mood setting. Medic has the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, and most of the film was shot in the rooms and corridors of the County Hospital. The only noticeable divergence from truth came at the show's end, when a nurse asked the doctor: "Shall I tell...
...furious winds spiraling toward Carol's center piled up the water in a wave-topped mound that swept with the hurricane toward the helpless coast. When it finally hit, the wind-driven water had nowhere to go. Dammed up by wind pressure, it submerged the breakwaters, sandspits and islands, covering them deeply enough to allow the great waves to ride into harbors and bays...
...alone. His zoological middle name is hyperborea, ("from beyond the north wind"), and the reason he wants to get behind the north wind once a year is that then he loses all his feathers at once. It takes him two weeks to grow new ones. Meanwhile, he is helpless-he can't fly, can't fight, can't look anything but another molting Greater Snow Goose...