Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brisk, enthusiastic French priest stepped jauntily ashore in Shanghai to begin his career as a Vincentian missionary. For the next 46 years, Father Adolph Buch kept himself busy teaching, preaching, training young Chinese priests, organizing medical dispensaries, and helping to care for the sick, the poor and the helpless. In the midst of his tasks, he found time to become a collector of butterflies as well...
...spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside was soon stripped bare of everything edible. They had no idea where to go. Many, Hindu and Moslem alike, complained of rough police treatment. Border guards, empowered to enforce the new passport regulations, were helpless...
...That extreme I have firmly and explicitly renounced . . . The opposite extreme, is no less repugnant to me. [It] talks in the slick vocabulary of 'red herring' and 'phantoms' ... It rejects the idea that you and I, in order to sustain our individual liberties, must remain helpless in the face of Communist conspiracy . . . Freedom can defend itself without destroying itself...
Later the persistent stomachache returned, and the girl started a 35 -year tour through American hospitals. She had nine abdominal operations and some 5,600 hours of free medical attention, but the doctors never found any physical basis for her aches & pains. She became a helpless invalid before she finally took the first young surgeon's advice. Then it was too late. No psychiatrist could turn back the clock. By then the doctors agreed that her first trouble had been a simple, psychogenic stomachache, but it had snowballed until every problem in her life brought gastrointestinal distress. She became...
...even those who are discharged from the hospital, the operation may be too "successful.'" Free from anxiety, they may become, instead, irresponsible, tactless, indolent. They will probably have trouble making up their minds, and may hear voices or echoes. Worse than that, some may regress into placid animals, helpless for the rest of their lives...