Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair's mating dance is jittery and erratic but unfalteringly human. One wondrously comic blackout sequence in which Stan is baffled by bra hooks, stuck zippers and the location of a misplaced contraceptive could serve as a catalogue of the frustrating minutiae that can reduce seduction to helpless farce...
...subsequent conversations, the priest urged the murderer to turn him self in and refused him absolution until he did so. The youth would not. Bound by canon law to observe the church's tradition that nothing said in confession may ever be disclosed, the priest was helpless to protest publicly. Yet in the next four years, three more chil dren in the Langenberg area were abducted and killed in much the same manner as the first...
...militia force to retreat aross the road into the town proper. There the militiamen were surrounded and isolated-and for the rest of the macabre night pointedly ignored by the marauders. The Viet Cong were not intent on a military victory but on the coldblooded, monumental massacre of the helpless Montagnards...
...alone willing-to donate a kidney, researchers in a dozen branches of medical science have been trying ever since to devise a way of switching off the immune or rejection mechanism long enough to let a transplant "take," then restore it so that the recipient will not be a helpless prey to every passing infection...
Boston College began the scoring barely 30 seconds after the opening faceoff, as left wing Mike Bucciero split defensemen Skip Freeman and Tom Micheletti and beat helpless goalie Paul Oldfield. Harvard tightened up and took control, mounting several good drives on the B.C. net. They were unable to beat the agile Powers, however, and the first period ended with Harvard down...