Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game. But by this time you are so damn nervous that you can barely listen and you even get the suspicion that the coaches are nervous because they don't really notice that your mind is a thousand miles away. They just keep talking because they feel kind of helpless when the game is being played so they just keep talking trying to do that one last bit to get you ready...
...Saville are rarely obvious; our passport into Colin's dilemma is understatement and the slow accumulation of detail. Storey uses strings of adjectives almost lovingly. Writing of Colin's mother, he says: "It was as if her life had flooded out, secretly, without their knowledge, and she some helpless agent, watching this dissolution with a hidden rage, half-apologetic, half-disowning." It is this dissolution, the steady draining away of life and resolve, which afflicts so many of these characters...
Hurling two-hit ball over the first five innings, the Crimson sophomore a paced Harvard to its 14th (against a single setback) and his fourth (against no set-backs) triumph of the season, a 10-0 pasting of the helpless Engineers...
...statistics point to a rapidly declining rate of population increase, but that is coming about chiefly through a high infant mortality; the first and most helpless victims of starvation are babies, after their mothers have gone dry. A strong current of American opinion, as reflected in the newspapers (some of which still produce their daily eight pages of bad news), holds that it is just as well. It serves to reduce the population, doesn...
...proceeds across the U.S., a constant danger is that controller and pilot will somehow misunderstand each other. This apparently happened on Dec. 1, 1974, when TWA Flight 514 was approaching Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C. Coming in too low, the plane crashed into a mountain while the helpless controller watched the blip disappear from his radarscope. Since that disaster, controllers, while giving the final clearance, read out specific altitude changes to pilots approaching all airports...