Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like opponents who can swallow you up like giant clams sucking down helpless Hawaiian pearl divers? Prince Ieukea, the Hawaiian nobleman who has given up his crown to become a big-time wrestler, can take on two Howless (Hawaiian variant of honky) at one time and turn them into bloody papua. Ieukea eventually had to be banned from the sport after he attacked Don Ho, who was in he audience in Honolulu that evening. Don Ho had called him a "tin horn sport." Ieukea dislocated Ho's shoulder before the ring police stepped in to "quiet him down...
...Lawrence was a creature of legend, the legend was of his own making. That distinction separates him from more helpless heroes of the early 20th century, like Charles Lindbergh. He was acutely sensitive to the uses and inflections of propaganda. "We must also arrange the minds of the enemy," Lawrence wrote in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, "so far as we could reach them; then those other minds of the nation supporting us behind the firing line, since more than half the battle passed there in the back; then the minds of the enemy nation waiting the verdict...
...Jenny back to a period of intense vulnerability. She is haunted by a presentiment of death, an old crone with a face wrinkled into bird tracks, her left eye a bulging black socket. Jenny, who has taken a lover, flirts with another, a physician named Tomas. She finds herself helpless at work, stricken by malignant anxiety...
Rand, who left her Russian birthplace while in her teens, said she believes the American people are in the midst of a, "blind, groping, ideologically helpless rebellion" against collectivism and its perpetrator, the "lousy modern intellectual...
...Everything she touched turned to god," Evert said, "I felt helpless out there...