Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a five-man State Crime Commission opened public hearings in Manhattan on the plight of the waterfront. To lay a basis, the commission first cast its subpoena net into a school of neatly groomed waterfront businessmen-heads of stevedoring and shipping companies. In theory, these were the helpless victims in the domain of President Joe Ryan of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association. In fact and testimony, most of the witnesses turned out to be men who would dangle a dollar on the end of a hook for either bait or payoff, whichever...
...lead over Kling to seven minutes, left the other two Mercédès half an hour behind. But on the afternoon lap of the next-to-last day, Bracco's luck finally ran out. The clutch of the Ferrari burned out, and the Italian watched in helpless rage as the three Mercédès-Benzes roared...
...These men have M.D. degrees, and may be of help of those with eye disease, but most students just need a power increase in their present lenses--so optholmologists are an expensive luxury. He might instead patronize the handful of opticians around the Square. Here, however, the student is helpless before the log-rolling collusion of examiner and lens grinder. This combination rarely fails to produce bills of less than twenty dollars...
...open style of play, and good passers have popped up all over the football map this year. Key men in the T-formation, they can make a poor team better than average, a good team great, and, on a bad day. they can also make an average team look helpless. Some of the best went to battle last week, with varying results...
...theory of charity that prevented "a breakdown of the social order in the 16th century," when the medieval pattern of almsgiving for the good of the donor's soul fell into neglect. Luther told his followers that "the aim of charity is the independence of the individual; the helpless must be trained to help themselves...