Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control of those mines is in jeopardy. Over the past 16 years, the U.S. has always helped Zaïre in moments of crisis. Despite his imperial manner and lavish personal taste, President Mobutu has so far managed the considerable feat of holding his mineral-rich country together. Almost helpless to influence the sudden state of affairs in Zaïre, the U.S. dispatched two planeloads of military supplies to Kinshasa; Belgium, the former colonial power, sent a shipment of light arms and got ready to dispatch a lot more. France and West Germany also dispatched aid to Kinshasa...
...soon as she had released her order, Chou Yang announced from his high office in the Ministry of Culture that he was sending the very company she was working with to Hong Kong to perform Swan Lake! She was outraged but helpless. [Chou Yang reportedly maligned] The Red Detachment as an "infant in swaddling bands sucking its thumb" and an "ugly daughter...
Smarting from last Friday's heartbreak loss at Yale, coach Johnny Lee's wrestlers methodically mauled a helpless Brown squad, 35-10, Saturday at Providence...
...successful than Galopin in liberating Claustre. At one point, France delivered an $880,000 ransom in cash and promised another $ 1.4 million in the form of nonmartial military goods, including a field hospital. Habre refused the bait, and the result was the astonishing spectacle of a nuclear power virtually helpless before a guerrilla leader with a ragtag army of fewer than...
...seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination of the spark gap of fact into idea, or material into metaphor that the author is helpless. "I cannot explain the leap from juvenile verses to Sunday Morning, " she concludes, "but we have seen many intimations of its coming." Those intimations are reward enough for the Stevens appreciator. By the final chapter the creative act alone remains, as always, unreachable: in Wallace Ste vens' memorable phrase...