Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat-a staccato roar, rapidly increasing in volume. Here was Clark, buzzing merrily along, ignorant of the drama up ahead. Down the straightaway rolled Bruce McLaren, at a desperate 30 m.p.h. Down the straightaway flashed Jimmy Clark, at a casual 130 m.p.h. McLaren was pounding his knees in helpless frustration as Clark zipped past, just 300 yds. from the finish...
...this the trapped woman watches in helpless horror, but fear and anger do their work in her, and when the killers at last come to kill her they discover that the lady in the cage has turned into a tigress...
...fact that human young are born more helpless than those of most animals, and remain dependent longer than any others, is sometimes seen as a disadvantage. Not so, said Dr. Cooke: "The greatest single advantage that the species Homo sapiens possesses is to be born immature and to remain immature for a long time." It is this, he declared, that creates the opportunity for the improvement of man. He suggested that it is not so important to know how much intelligence is determined by inheritance and how much it is affected by environment, as to know how each of these...
Preemie Protection. Mothers of very sick children may sleep in, at $6.50 a night (including breakfast and lunch). For the most helpless of all immature humans, the premature baby, there is a special wing consisting of six rooms, each containing four incubators. As each room is emptied, it is completely sterilized, thus greatly reducing the risk of infection for the next occupants. (With a single, large preemie ward, which can never be emptied, this practice is impossible.) And preemies enjoy an electronic monitoring system which, the Hopkins believes, is the first of its kind in the world. Under each armpit...
...foundations of his cathedral, and then realizes on his deathbed that his spiritual inspiration was probably only worldly ambition. A metaphysical summation of his four previous novels (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall, etc.), William Golding's medieval fable is a provocative and often brilliant statement of the helpless and iniquitous nature...