Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also bought the tracks. The camera discovers him, in sleek middle age, roaring it up as the beast of the board room of the Eastern & Portland Railroad, whose cringing miscellany of vice presidents is pleading with the "general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad" for her shipment of lobsters that died on the siding because of his penny-wise policies...
...anarchic lack of discipline. The fact that we did not always make fools of ourselves, and that we asked the Russians a number of embarrassing questions does not appear in the Ogonek article, due to the fact that it does not support the Soviet line that Americans are invariably helpless before the Soviet concept of truth...
...conversation this morning with him, and in view of the findings the doctors have made . . . he has definitely made up his mind to submit his resignation." The medical findings, the President added, "are not of the kind, so far as I am aware, that make him helpless. He is nevertheless absolutely incapacitated so far as . . . carrying on the administrative load, in addition to assisting in the making of policy. So I have asked him to remain as my consultant." (Later, Ike asked that the word "absolutely" be cut from the transcript...
Into the jungle clearing in northern Burma came a squad of seven Japanese soldiers carrying a wounded officer on a litter. A machine-gun nest of Merrill's Marauders cut them down like wheat; one of the Marauders was later rumored to have slit the throat of the helpless Japanese officer. But, says Author Ogburn, 48, who was there as a second lieutenant, "no one had the stomach to try to establish the facts." From the pockets of one of the slain Japanese spilled two objects common to men at war: a cheap gilt Buddha and a contraceptive device...
...hands of an army veterinarian, Colonel Loutfi Tahir, who fills the newspapers with Red propaganda. Last week Iraqi authorities expelled three U.S. correspondents-TIME's William McHale, CBS's Winston Burdett, U.P.I.'s Larry Collins-on short notice, and Kassem's office said he was helpless to save them...