Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frustrated, the Bruins began to play a more physical game as they outshot Harvard, 12-2. That frustration reached its peak when, at 21:31 of the period, Harvard's Steve Smith broke away from Brown fullbacks and beat a helpless Bruin goalie on the short side...
...performance that was at the same time skillfully structured and frighteningly immediate in its impact. The build toward the major climaxes possessed the unerring sense of direction and the searing intensity of a great horror story and the final fading away produced the desired effect of a helpless submersion in utter darkness...
Patricia Hearst defies the System that raised her by trying to destroy it; and then, when the System captures her and demands justice, this she-tiger becomes a helpless kitten in the jaws of society. If she gets off and does go free, she will have achieved her goal, the destruction of democracy...
...roar at him," said a luncheon companion, "and he had some trouble with our English accents." Wallace's energy did not seem to slacken, but there was no disguising the fact that he is an invalid. Noted the Daily Telegraph: "It was a small, strained, pathetically helpless figure that was helped from car to wheelchair and back...
Curled in a fetal position and shrunk to half her normal 120 Ibs., Karen Ann Quinlan lies helpless in St. Clare's Hospital in Denville, N.J., unaware that she is in effect going on trial for her life. Her eyes are open, unseeing. Her body convulses slightly every few seconds as an artificial respirator, surgically connected to her windpipe, forces her lungs to work, enabling her to continue in what her doctors describe as a "chronic vegetative state." Her heart is beating, and her permanently damaged brain continues to function, sending off slight but steady signals visible...