Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Helpless Feeling...
...until Siam is in Communist hands. The terrorists get their guns and ammunition by shooting people who have them. A favorite trick until recently was to shoot down traffic police when their backs were turned and to seize their side arms. Now traffic police go unarmed and thus are helpless if they see a bandit outrage...
They are wrong. To recommend himself, Franco can offer not even the virtue of usefulness. Lacking planes, tanks, any kind of modern equipment or training, his divisions would be helpless against invaders. Without staggering investment in roads, airports, and railroads, they could not even use what equipment we might give them...
...Force Nurse Mary Wilfong showed signs of weeping. "Taking care of the wounded isn't a pleasant job always," she said, "but it never hit me like this. Those kids were so helpless and so pitiful...
...streetcars and subways that barely moved for lack of power. Women queued up at public fountains for water (turned off ten hours each day in homes). In shop windows and coffeehouses candles and oil lamps replaced light bulbs and neon signs. Movies were limited to one show daily. While helpless officials talked of building new hydroelectric plants, Madrileños roamed the crowded streets aimlessly, peering at the clear skies for signs of rain...