Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their always being foreigners, and the corruption that menaces them in a foreign land. Yet even while it interlaces these three themes, the play at bottom rests on none of them; at bottom it is pure domestic drama-the anguished struggle of a wife to shield a proud, helpless husband and to support him and their child...
...putting in shore time and doing it rather badly. For one thing, as all his fans will remember, Hornblower has an unarmored spot over his heart. "The man who fired the broadside that shook the Renown off the mud when under the fire of red-hot shot was helpless when confronted by a couple of women." The heroic bounder slinks out on an affair of the heart with his landlady's daughter, and while the lass tearfully presses his uniform, spends the last 50 pages of the book at his club, playing whist...
While they are still in the helpless pupal stage, the flies will be irradiated with cobalt. When they emerge as adults, they will be liberated in heavily infested districts. The females among them will do m damage to the cattle: they can lay no normal eggs. The males, sterile but still ambitious, will scour the country for fertile wild mates. But the females that they win will never lay fertile eggs. Bushland believes that "extensive use of this method will have a profoundly depressing effect on the screwworm fly population...
...tragedies of our time is that our President, Harry S. Truman, an essentially honorable and upright man . . . has allowed himself to be so hampered by the machinations of false friends that, like Gulliver, he is rendered helpless by a network thrown about him by "little people," confessed self-seekers and greedy opportunists. Tennyson describes his situation thus: "His honor rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." Shakespeare, the master diagnostician of mental and emotional deviations, provides the remedy: ". . . To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst...
...pair of goals in each of the first two periods--two by Amory Hubbard--enabled the Crimson to overcome a 1-0 Dartmouth lead. Good defensive work held the Indians helpless thereafter. The win was Harvard's first in three Pentagonal League games, and broke a two-game losing string...