Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month at last, Aviator Bordelon got his chance. Nearly every night, singleengine, Russian-made airplanes were sneaking across U.N. lines, dropping small bombs on Seoul and Kimpo airfields. Against these bothersome "Bedcheck Charlies," high-speed jets were helpless: they could not turn tightly enough to draw a bead on ancient trainers and biplanes. The Air Force called for Navy help, and up flew Lieut. Bordelon in his World War II vintage Corsair...
...that man was capable of saving not only his soul but himself . . . That man was . . . capable ... of teaching himself to be civilized ... He demanded of man only that we work to deserve and gain these things-liberty, freedom of the body and spirit both, security for the weak and helpless and peace and freedom for all-because these were the most valuable things He could set within our capacity and reach...
...CinemaScope will abolish, at one stroke, the art of the film as it has been practiced since that memorable day in 1907 when Rescued from an Eagle's Nest was released and people hurried in by the dozens to watch a baleful old bird, unmistakably stuffed, clutch a helpless infant in its claws and fly away to eat it up. Gone is the viewer's sense of eavesdropping on activities that are, after all, going on in another room. In CinemaScope, the illusion in the other room outflanks the beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms him with...
This last tune-up before the Yale game proved conclusively that the Crimson at tack can score. The shooting was excellent, and the passing even better. Tufts was helpless against the attack. Monk Alello, Phil Waring, and Ed Curtis tallied 11 goals between them...
...staying at his favorite Czech farmhouse in the Catskills, he takes regular hikes and, according to his former secretary, will almost break river ice for a morning swim. A year ago while Jakobson was hiking along a highway, a car struck him. For an hour he lay helpless until an ambulance finally came, and doctors say only his excellent physical condition saved him from death. The accident left him with a slight limp, but he uses a came only in icy weather...