Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subsequent behavior has to be related to that fact. Prisoners under stress have a strong tendency to identify with the aggressor. The victim is dependent upon him for protection, food, for life itself. Identifying with the abductors may seem to be his or her only mechanism for survival. A helpless captive ends up fusing with the ideas of a group and doing things he or she as an individual would never have done. Life on the run with the S.L.A. was one of constant stress, at war in a hostile country with a friendly underground." West thinks that Patty could...
...gumshoe in patent-leather footwear, a master of misstatement, a helpless fanatic for crème de cacao, soft, sweet chocolate and Russian cigarettes. Still, Hercule Poirot, famed Belgian-born detective-and literary creation of Mystery Writer Dame Agatha Christie, 84 -never failed to solve a case in all of 37 novels. "An extraordinary little man!" Christie once wrote. "Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective...
They are called "clients," but that is just a euphemism. They are the handicapped people of Yuba and Sutler counties in California-some mentally retarded, some emotionally disturbed, some former drug addicts-handicapped but not helpless. To assist those who wanted to work, concerned local citizens established in 1969 a federally subsidized training center called Gateway Project. There the clients learn some basic skills. They assemble kits of electric rods for a utility company's field linemen; they reupholster chairs for nearby military bases; they tie together stalks of wheat for a local florist who sells dried flowers...
Ford got off to a shaky start in foreign affairs, the area of Government where he had the least experience. He let Kissinger take the lead and admitted as much. Both he and Kissinger seemed helpless as South Viet Nam and Cambodia collapsed, and they harshly blamed Congress for refusing their futile request for last-minute increases in military aid. But the President mounted an impressive operation to remove the refugees without the bloodshed that had been predicted. Then he was handed an opportunity to display his mettle. The Cambodians seized the merchant vessel Mayaguez, and the President responded...
...comes off as a sorry, almost pitiful rival to the President. The brave initiatives of last January have become the cruel frustrations of now. The Democrats have lost their momentum, their sense of purpose and esprit. They are floundering in a political morass. They see themselves as disarrayed and helpless. But if with 289 members of the House they cannot act, they might as well call in the dogs. The hunting will be over...