Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power of Paralysis. How could it all have happened? Why did none of the girls scream for help or break away while their captor was out of the room? The answer probably lies in the power of a gun; the helpless victims were evidently paralyzed by the thought that the assailant might shoot them before any move could succeed...
...into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined to help the helpless American children and expectant mothers in the camp. She sweetened the camp commandant with cough syrup and talked...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Cast by the Nazis as persecutor of a helpless old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska), a seriocomic Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) struggles against moral bankruptcy in a fine Czechoslovakian drama that reduces the march of history to events on a pathetically human scale...
...years the 1,000 villagers of Tau Nghia off the South China Sea had been the helpless pawns of war: used and abused, taxed and conscripted, sheltered and then shelled by first one army and then another in the march and countermarch of Viet Nam's wars. Only last fall Saigon troops recaptured the hamlet after it had been in Viet Cong hands for six months. Tau Nghia's fortunes abruptly changed. First the Korean Tiger Division arrived and set up its headquarters in nearby Qui Nhon, providing a visible and powerful shield of security. And last January...
Clearly, Stevens presented the court with a grand opportunity to strike a blow for helpless televiewers who get bombarded constantly with sales pitches that the networks callously strew through televised movies. The judge's decision, in fact, seemed to be heading in that direction. "It is true," said Judge Richard L. Wells, "that the effect of the commercial interruptions was to lessen, to decrease, to disturb, to interrupt, and to weaken the mood, effect or continuity and the audience involvement-and therefore some of the artistry of the film." But then, reversing course, Wells found NBC not guilty...