Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles de Gaulle is extremely thin-skinned about criticism or ridicule from his fellow Frenchmen. Unlike such helpless victims of the public and press as Lyndon Johnson or Harold Wilson, however, he has found a way to intimidate and punish his critics. In 1881, when the President of France was a powerless and nonpolitical figurehead, the National Assembly passed a law against insulting him "by speeches, cries, threats uttered in public places, or by writings, posters or notices exhibited to the public." In its first 77 years on the books, the law was invoked only nine times. Then...
...freshman tennis team swamped a helpless M.I.T. squad 9-0, yesterday on the Engineers' home ground to kick off a new season...
...found your story on "The Julio Incident" [March 8] particularly disheartening. An armed American ship stood by, while three helpless men who sought only freedom were repeatedly overrun by a Cuban vessel in international waters. The result was a defeat, not so much for this nation as for the spirit of common humanity, to which those unfortunate men in the lifeboat were appealing...
However, this effect will probably be overshadowed by the result of reduced U.S. imports. The payments deficit can only be narrowed by expanding exports or restricting imports. A government has control over imports both through tariffs and fiscal policy. But since it is virtually helpless to expand exports rapidly, the latter course is inevitable. Unfortunately, U.S. imports are by definition the exports of other nations, so they must face reduced exports, which will cause them to reduce their imports, which are the exports of still other nations, and so it goes. Because of the complexity of trade relations...
...intercept it by a Cuban exile organization in Miami. The U.S., of course, got no thanks from Havana. Raging against "this new imperialistic Yankee aggression," the Castro government charged that "Yankee warships" had "violated the principles of freedom of the seas" by carrying out a "warlike maneuver" against a helpless freighter...