Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like most Hiroshimans, Shigeto is a pacifist. He believes that "the nobility of human spirit will surely prevent" another Hiroshima. "Isn't it strange," he says, "that the worst disaster in human history should have turned me into a helpless optimist?" Indeed, despite his city's ordeal, Shigeto has been so impressed by the strength and courage displayed by Hiroshima's victims that he has unbounded faith in man's prospects for survival. That feeling was bolstered recently when he learned that the first two victims he treated after the blast are still alive today...
...alien machine brain lobotomized into his skull so that his actions are uncontrollable) chased at the end to a cemetery, the Man Writhing at the bottom of an open deepsunk grave in agony while a helicopter hovers above training high-powered rifles at him helpless in the pit, shooting him full of holes...
...shocks and surprises that editors had a hard time remembering a week like it. The U.S. and the world were trying to pick up the pieces after Henry Kissinger's failed Middle East mission. Saudi Arabia's King Faisal was assassinated. In Indochina, the Cambodian government seemed helpless, while President Nguyen Van Thieu's panicking army yielded province by province to North Vietnamese troops. Portugal, a member of NATO, was continuing its slide leftward. All of this presented serious problems for a U.S. recently too preoccupied with the recession to pay a great deal of attention...
...Taichiro, like the others, remains helpless...
...Depression usually involves people who feel hopeless, helpless and worthless," Gill said. He stressed four factors as being crucial to suicide early life losses, a family history of suicides, pressure from successful parents, and narrow pre-professional goals...