Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theodora was no idle throne warmer. She ruled as a full partner, intrigued incessantly against enemies of the regime. When the people revolted, it was she who was firm while Justinian stood helpless. Because her past continually plagued her, she put an end to brothels in a city that considered them indispensable. She even, so history tells it, built a sanctuary for prostitutes, and sent 500 there to repent at leisure. Of one thing not even her basest enemies accused her: unfaithfulness to Justinian...
...Fined 30,000 Cantonese firms and confiscated 600 factories for failure to pay up. But the bosses agreed that some mistakes had been made. In their zeal to get at the helpless tigers, said the Peking People's Daily, party members had classified too many merchants as "half law-abiding," when they were entitled to a higher rating, to wit, "essentially law-abiding." South China's railroad system had broken down when the tiger hunters sacked its entire staff. So many businesses had been ruined that "trade outlets had lapsed into inactivity...
...week the Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. unveiled a monstrous apparatus for studying the effect of G-forces on fragile human flesh. In a trim, museumlike building, a soft, cantilever arm whirls in a horizontal circle, carrying on its end a lens-shaped aluminum "gondola" where the helpless "airman" sits. The gondola can be tilted at any angle, directing the G-force in any direction through the passenger's body. Driven by a 4,000-h.p. motor, the arm can generate 15 Gs (much more than a man can stand) in less than two seconds. At full...
...thin. He wanted to speak for his church on such matters as birth control (which he opposes) and the invocation of the saints (which he advocates). But he found no binding pronouncements by Episcopal Church authority either in favor of these practices or against them. He felt himself equally helpless even to enforce some of the explicit rules of the church, e.g., the "bounden duty" of every Episcopalian to attend services on Sunday. Says Kernan: "The laity may do almost anything they want . . . If you tell them that something's their bounden duty, they're liable...
Leverett's red-hot baseball team stopped a ninth-inning Dunster rally yesterday to beat the Funsters, 4 to 3, and cop the House intramural baseball laurels with a final record of seven wins, no defeats. Stu Lanier pitched the Bunnies the championship, holding the Funsters almost helpless until he tired...