Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lair to be kept in storage. If the catch is a big, vigorous, dangerous intruder (a honeybee or a grasshopper), the spider turns her back and squirts out silk in a broad band from all her 600 spinnerets. Only when the victim is trussed up and helpless in silken swathes does Aranea tow it away to the slaughterhouse...
...years after the birth of his child, Detroit Symphony Musician Eugene Braunsdorf did everything in his power to make her happy and comfortable. It was a heartbreaking task; Virginia was a spastic child, and grew slowly into a helpless parody of womanhood. At 21, she was only four feet tall, could not hold her head upright, and talked in gobbling sounds which only her father could understand...
...machine stopped. And suddenly in Manhattan's lofty apartment buildings, 200,000 dwellers, some of whom are lords of a sizable part of creation during business hours, seemed as flustered and helpless as unshelled hermit crabs. Local 32-6 of A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes was on strike. Elevators stopped running, coal furnaces went out, and matrons were forced to open taxi doors themselves...
...thus giving a chance to refugees from postwar pogroms and Communist persecutions, and the requirements that 40% of all admissions be Baits and 30% be farmers were struck off. Despite Pat McCarran, the U.S. at last was about to do a little more for the world's helpless, as both parties' platforms had long pledged themselves...
...taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath Pal. I lived in the village of Subhodpur. My house has been burned and my two sisters and my aunt are lost. My property has been looted. I have nothing and I am helpless." He signed the deposition with his thumbprint...