Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spattered clothes so that, as Manchester quotes her, "they can see what they've done." Another section that disturbed Jackie was Manchester's account of her feeling of emptiness and despair when she went to bed at the White House on the night of the assassination. In helpless, futile anguish, she tore at the pillow that night...
...wrongs do not make a right. The irresponsible tampering with the body [Dec. 2] of a helpless soul should be censured as unethical and punished as malpractice. I wonder how Johns Hopkins could lend its authority to this vicious kind of surgery, which is based on a most stupid "logic" of its inventor and followers...
...troubled landscape of Asia, kingship can be anything from a semireligious show to true, traditional force. Even in Malaysia, where a new king is elected every five years, or in Laos, where the King sits largely helpless but pleasant above war and factions, the monarchy provides at least a semblance of unifying tradition-plus something to talk about. In Thailand, it is immensely important. King Bhumibol Adulyadej seems all but divine to his Buddhist masses-an impression enhanced by the tradition that people must approach him crawling along the floor on hands and knees. But he is really a modern...
...Helpless Horror. Superbly trained fire crews dragged hoses toward the burning locker. Other crewmen fought desperately to roll four planes to the far end of the hangar deck: three of them were already laden with bombs; the fourth, a tanker, carried 900 gal. of JB5 jet fuel. The fire fighters watched in helpless horror as the steel bulkheads of the flare locker started ballooning under the 7,000° heat inside. The steel hatch blasted open with a great gout of flame that engulfed the hangar and sent fire balls rocketing down every passageway, igniting two helicopters. Five sailors were...
...final 22-minute period, Columbia's Mossik Hacobian converted a penalty kick awarded when a Lion shot nicked the hand of a helpless Crimson fullback...