Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevailing sound of the evening is whiny, rhetorical self-pity, though ten minutes before the final curtain Bea Richards pierces the cloudy monotony with a stormburst of tears and sun shafts of helpless laughter. But by then it is too late for the playgoer to be greatly cheered by a solitary rainbow of real passion...
History has registered the Reconstruction as a monument to the vindictiveness of victory. Prostrate in defeat, the South played helpless host to its Northern plunderers, who not only despoiled the land but turned its government over to newly emancipated and ignorant slaves. Ever since, the South has rested part of its case against the Negroes on the fallout from this great Northern mistake. If only the conquerors had been understanding-so goes the argument-if only they had let Southern leaders work out their own salvation and cure, then those very recent chapters called Little Rock and Montgomery and Selma...
...Johns Hopkins University, the President appeared before students and faculty in Baltimore. He described the Vietnamese war as one of "unparalleled brutality," where "simple farmers are the targets of assassination and kidnaping. Women and children are strangled in the night because their men are loyal to the government. And helpless villages are ravaged by sneak attacks . . . terror strikes in the heart of cities...
...that will detract nothing from his accomplishments. They shot Gandhi, Lincoln and Kennedy, but monuments are erected to their memories. They had clubs and bullwhips in Christ's day but they didn't have rednecks and Ku Klux Klansmen walking along dropping tear-gas grenades beside the helpless victims. 1 have seen numerous dead and wounded on the battlefield, but 1 have never seen enemy wounded subjected to such barbarity...
...field goal attempts, and 13 of 13 foul shots, but the entire Tiger quintet was brilliant. In the first half Princeton hit 65 per cent of its shots from the floor and rolled up a 47-34 lead. Providence, one of the nation's best defensive teams, was completely helpless against the Tigers' shooting and Bradley's great playmaking...