Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem lies not with the government's instruments of power, but with its credibility. The police could arrest McCoy and Shanker, but it would make no difference, for they are as helpless as the Mayor and the Superintendent of Schools. On September 11, McCoy agreed to readmit the disputed personnel, only to have the community block their entrance the next day. The intermediate political institutions, necessary to confine conflict, have broken down because their constituencies are both aware and uncompromising, and the city, now forced to deal directly with the people of Ocean...
...that Cliffies are helpless. But the designs and facilities of the Radcliffe dormitories demand specialized staffs of a kind that were plentiful and cheap forty years ago, and are neither today...
Like many variety shows, Laugh-In features new talent-except that the talent is deliberately askew: a virtuoso on the kazoo, a birdcall impressionist, or an all-thumbs juggler. It was in one such segment, for example, that the show inflicted on a helpless nation that hitherto unknown dingaling, Tiny...
...Gonzales to marvel that Arthur's cannonball was "the fastest serve since my own." Ashe's flat, accurate backhands were no less ferocious, drawing raves of "fantastic" and "tremendous" from another old master, Don Budge. Okker prolonged the contest as much as he could, but finally stood helpless as Ashe ran out the last game at love. Then Ashe walked off the court and embraced his father, who burst into tears...
...think I can't do any thing, don't you?"Bobby sets out to prove what he can do. He begins by methodically killing his wife and mother. Then, from an oil-storage tank and later at a drive-in theater, he coolly fires away at helpless motorists trapped in their cars. The slaughter does not end until Boris Karloff, stoically suffering through a prolonged cameo appearance as a fading horror-movie star, collars the killer. "I hardly ever missed, did I?" says Bobby to the police as the handcuffs...