Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the forward-looking men in technical education who realized just how limited a strictly technical education might be. However skilled they were, he decided, most engineers were "illiterate about the world around them." They were able to do amazing things within their own narrow fields, but they were helpless once they went beyond. As professional leaders and as citizens, said Doherty, they were next to useless...
...Helpless Heroes. Gheorghiu has two heroes, both Rumanians, neither of them guilty of any crime. Johann is a naive young farmhand who is sent to a labor camp by a police official who covets his wife. Traian is a famous novelist and minor diplomat whose first internment comes when the Yugoslavs pick him up as an enemy alien. Once imprisoned, each begins a pointless odyssey of torture and despair that ends with Traian's death in a camp and Johann's enlistment (to escape another round of internments) in the army of "the West" at the start...
...this poop backfired badly last Saturday. Dartmouth was helpless against a Brown team to which it lost...
...change in U.S. attitude had been produced mainly by Russian abuse of the veto. On 46 occasions the U.S.S.R. had demonstrated that the Security Council was helpless. The Korean decision itself was made possible by a fluke; the Russians who had taken a walk probably would never again repeat their blunder of boycotting the Council...
Last Saturday the jayvee football team made it one out of one by thundering to a 5d to 0 victory in its debut against a helpless Leicester Junior College squad. And last weekend a team of Army jayvees downed their Cornell counterparts by only...