Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does the Review, instead of stimulating unsympathetic readers, never fail to reduce them to helpless, steaming annoyance? Because it obviously delights in clothing cruel prejudices in elevated language? To an extent. But the magazine's chief offense is not crudity, but irreverence. The Left, both liberal and radical, bickers endlessly about how best to score points for Democracy and Progress. The Right, both conservative and lunatic, takes a glum sort of satisfaction in staging hopeless goal line stands. But Buckley and his legions just sit in the stands and snicker, maliciously...
...other tutors in the original group had what one called more "teacherly" reasons for dissatisfaction. They complained they felt helpless in a senior tutorial situation that forced them to supervise theses on topics unfamiliar to them. After a few meetings, the tutee often knew more about his topic than his tutor did, and the tutors felt they were reduced to mere technical supervision, unable to contribute very much to the undergraduate's effort. Also, they were looking for a way to teach rather than simply to tutor, an arrangement that would allow them to take a more creative role...
Patterson, however, refused to gve up. Literally helpless and rocking uncontrollably from side to side at least twice in each of the last five rounds, he somehow managed to stay on his feet...
...worked hard and anticipated strong support. "But there was no group of people I could call together and say, 'I've heard that people in your area are going to stay home. Is it true? Let's get something up to get these people out.'" So he was helpless...
...captives of their feelings!" said the Colonel as his staff gathered round to hear him bid Bowman farewell. "Their impulses will run away with their reason! Read Freud! The Israelites had Moses as their advocate with Pharaoh! We are the advocates for the poor, the sick and the helpless-millions of deserving claimants! Drive hard for your verdict...