Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same set speech-tempting his press coterie, who have heard it a few dozen times before, to catch up on lost sleep. In contrast, Humphrey's tongue drifts freely from the predistributed text. Having already sent their stories to meet some immutable deadline, the correspondents listen in helpless frustration to these often-quotable embroideries. (The speech text: "And what did Senator Goldwater say? He said no." The Humphrey departure: "And where was Senator Goldwater? He was under the no-no tree in the shadow of his own indifference...
...cops are helpless, always patrol in groups and only during daylight. Except one. For the past 25 years, favela law, or what there was of it, largely rested on City Detective Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva...
...Horseface to show up, two cops from another district wandered in. Jealous of Perpétuo's fame, they argued over who had jurisdiction, started fighting. Suddenly one of them pulled a gun, while the other pinned Perpétuo's arms. Then, as he stood helpless, Bulletproof Perpétuo, 51, was shot dead by one of his fellow policemen...
...Himself thoroughly experienced both as a Cambridge scientist and a Whitehall administrator, he has made it disturbingly clear to millions that the motives of men of power are mixed and unpredictable, that even right decisions are often taken for trivial reasons, that even upright and intelligent men are often helpless to defeat inertia or change the results of the system...
...abeam of the destroyer so that evasion would be far more difficult. But this also brought the PT boat under the fire of two pairs of the Maddox's biggest guns. The Maddox fired-a direct hit. The enemy craft stopped dead in the water, helpless and aflame. Later she could not be found and was assumed to have sunk...