Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through ordinances requiring retailers who carry Communist-made goods to buy a permit (up to $5,000) and to post signs in their stores proclaiming that they are "licensed to sell Communist merchandise.'' In some cases, local Chambers of Commerce privately shudder over the consequences, but feel helpless to do anything about the pressures...
...lead France to new greatness. Hauteur and intransigence have always been weapons in that fight. For much of his life, he has been either a prophet without honor in his own country or, in wartime London and Washington, a soldier armed only with honor. When his country was helpless, he repeatedly forced the world to take his inspired vision of France for the reality, to accept his own obduracy and obstruction as a show of national strength. Today, with real military strength, a robust economy, Europe's most productive agriculture, he feels that France has an even greater right...
...cloth together, cut out a couple of little holes for the arms, a medium-sized one for the head and a big one for two legs to stick out of." Nothing quite so simple swivels heads in the streets; nor is the straight shift likely to turn strong men helpless after one swift glance. But to the thousands of American women who are just not quite ready yet for chartreuse face powder or the octagon look, the shift is a welcome and comfortable trend to latch...
...make the world a better place. No other American writer of the present time-either of the right or of the left-has so forcefully and persistently championed the individual against the state, and for this reason Goodman has attracted a wide following of people who feel frustrated and helpless and long for the democracy of a simpler day. "Only the anarchists are really conservative," writes Goodman, "because they want to conserve sun and space, animal nature, primary community, experimenting inquiry...
...guilt and her forty years of repentance does not prevent her from turning on Hummel with a vituperation equal in degree to the Old Man's. Even the student (whom Mr. Gordon took, as far as the text is concerned and not the production, to be helpless in the face of some great farce moving without him) too is guilty of an awful lack of understanding. He fails to comprehend the girl's neurotic hallucination at exactly those key places where his understanding of her predicament would have ended the cycle of antipathy and blind cruelty, rather than perpetuating...