Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barrage has often made a hash of the facts. Many people have been led to believe that the treaty constitutes some kind of massive giveaway that will leave the esteemed and still vital waterway in the clutches of rapacious crypto-Communists who will thereupon thumb their noses at the helpless giant to their north. Nothing could be further from the truth...
...face of this major ecological disaster, French officials were helpless. Winds howled so furiously for most of the week that plastic barricades failed to contain the drifting slicks. Emergency crews were reluctant to use detergents to break up the oil because they feared long-term toxic effects on marine life. Instead, fishermen worked day and night to move valuable oysters and scallops to other waters or to rush them to market...
...delight of the photographers. Budini Brown, Clay's corner man and cheerleader, gave his fighter the perfect line: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." That is precisely what he did. Cassius attacked, disappeared on those marvelously fast feet, attacked again, disappeared again, until the bear was beaten, helpless in his corner...
...beat goes on for Harvard's undefeated, unstoppable men's varsity swim team. Saturday, a very loose but still high-spirited crew of Crimson aqualungs stomped on a helpless Penn team at Blodgett Pool...
...west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work. They arrive when the tomatoes, oranges, or onions are ripe and they leave at the end of the harvest. Because they are constantly on the move, migrant children receive inadequate, often fragmented educations. Homeless, helpless and poor, the migrant worker provides the back-breaking labor needed to harvest much of the food on America's tables...