Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deepest cause of stress when playing with partners is a vulnerable sense of tormented and helpless guilt or responsibility, which destroys tennis strokes and poisons the atmosphere of the game. Profound, personal involvement of any sort off the court -"deep love or hate," or both together?can invade the game and make being tennis partners intolerable. (Playing against someone you love is much easier.) Fathers or mothers partnered with a favorite child are often as tense as husbands and wives. Father and son players know this all too well. A tournament player learned long ago that his game goes...
...Last Press Conference, and we can congratulate Miller for having anticipated Nixon so well. Nevertheless, it has the scent of yesterday's headlines; watching it is remembrance, not terror, as it was when we had Nixon before us, proclaiming he would not allow America to be reduced to a helpless pitiful giant...
...while the former is easy to get into, the latter is harder to get out of. Task forces are at work trying to cure the city of its financial problems, but very little has ever been done to ease the torments that cabs and their drivers inflict upon a helpless public...
...corruption, and we find among the Senators and Congressmen no one really usable for our purposes, we can make Senators and Congressmen out of our members ... I have met many famous, so-called famous, Senators and Congressmen; but to my eyes, they are just nothing. They are weak and helpless. We will win the battle. This is our dream, our project. But shut your mouth tight...
...after Viet Nam--do our people have the stomach to support terrorist means to achieve libertarian ends? If not, those who have made foreign policy uninterruptedly since the Second World War seem to fear, then we will be reduced to a role versus the Soviets and Chinese of a "helpless, pitiful giant." Nixon, the author of that phase, and the nation's best pro football fan, would know better than anyone that we need a political Vince Lombardi to alternately stir up our people's prejudices and whip us for our cowardice...