Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reader eventually learns that the old lady was a Mrs. Kavanagh, a 76-year-old alcoholic with a string of arrests for public drunkenness. The Housing Council relocted Mrs. Kavanagh in totall Point after her small house was flattened by progress. Like so many of the aged and helpless, she had in effect been buried...
Reston the unflagging optimist became Reston the disillusioned cheerleader. America the great nation had become, for him; the helpless giant. He wrote, "If there has been a decline in American optimism it is not because we do not know how to solve our problems, but because we do not yet know how to discuss them. The politicians insist on pretending that everything is soluble--that we can achieve almost unlimited ends with limited means--and while the people would like to believe it, they increasingly have their doubts" (June 6, 1965 column...
...primary purpose of the symposium, its organizers said, was to educate people to the problem of child abuse. "Child abuse is the symptom of a much larger problem in American society," Michael Turner, a social worker, said. "The child himself is not the problem; children are helpless...
...Taking advantage of the administrative chaos, unscrupulous speculators put up ramshackle homes and bilked thousands of poor buyers. Much of the housing, moreover, was overconcentrated on the edge of the metropolitan areas. Upwardly mobile blacks and whites were thus encouraged to leave the inner city, leaving behind the more helpless and criminally inclined groups. Because of the social decay that ensued, structurally sound housing was abandoned, contributing to the ghetto housing shortage. But the fact that housing policies led to undesirable results does not totally discredit them. Anthony Downs, chairman of the Real Estate Research Corp., argues that a solution...
...roll the price [of oil] back." Yet even a quick restoration of the Arab oil flow would not ease tight supplies in the U.S. immediately, and prices would remain well above preboycott levels. For some time, the nation will probably remain split into two equally hopeful and equally helpless factions, the believers and the doubters. And as every American has come to know, a house divided against itself will be a little colder this year...