Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horses fall in a frightening pileup. "Jocks were lying all over the place," he recalls. Corbin talked fast to assure the boy that such accidents were rare, and a few days later he conned Bill into climbing aboard a horse. First, the beast tried to run away with its helpless rider, and Willie just managed to hang on. Next time, says Corbin, "the horse went down on its knees and Bill slid onto its head. He just sat there, asking, 'What'll I do, Junie? What'll I do now?' It was pretty funny...
...above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this, it is thought, touched off an internal explosion of petroleum gas which in turn sent tons of flaming asphalt, marl, salt and limestone high into the air to descend on the helpless cities as brimstone and fire out of heaven, from the Lord...
...Helpless Fury. Distribution was the major problem, and in Indonesia's island republic, that meant ships. But most of Indonesia's ships are Dutch, and so are the captains. There are hardly any Indonesian pilots, and government officials dared not order Dutch captains to sea lest they surrender their ships to hovering Dutch warships. As the government's fury at its own helplessness mounted, Premier Djuanda and Army Chief of Staff Major General Abdul Haris Nasution arbitrarily ruled that "all waters around, between and connecting the islands belonging to the Indonesian archipelago ... are an integral part...
...Crimson had only one real penalty--when Dan Ullyot slammed down a potential scorer--but its checking was a spectators delight. From big John Copeland down to scrappy wing Bruce Gillie the sextet made B. C.'s once-champion checkers appear almost helpless...
Shelvey was found shortly after midnight lying helpless in the alley. Police rushed him straight to the hospital, where he was treated for a concussion, a broken jaw, a sprained wrist, and multiple cuts and bruises. Although he remained unconscous for more than twenty-four hours, his chances for recovery were termed "excellent" by Dr. P. C. Tan, police surgeon...