Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to resist injustice, it is right to resist injustice committed by a group. If it is right to try to stop a thug from beating up an old lady, it is right to try to stop a million or 200 million voters from killing distant but equally helpless old ladies...
...Jean Monnet insists, is the great federator, then Europe's time has finally come. In fact, it may already be too late. First, there was the profound humiliation of a community of 253 million people, with a gross national product of some $700 billion, reacting like a pitiful, helpless giant in a conflict far more vital to its well-being than to that of the United States or the Soviet Union...
...broke down because it failed to account for the strength of nationalism among people in the advanced capitalist powers. Internationalist sentiment persisted on the Europeanleft after the war, but it never gained enough leverage to deter imperialism. Internationalist and anti-imperialist feeling in the United States was even more helpless in the face of the emerging American collossus several decades later...
...February-and history, that heartless bitch, has stood him up again, with the Watergate investigations and the Agnew scandal. Characters more fascinating, events more crowded, a conspiracy against the Constitution far more plausible than any thing Drury has invented. It is not Drury's country that is a helpless giant, after all. It is his novel...
...strengthened. Even before the Agnew confession there was overwhelming evidence of a new and deeper national souring on Nixon, the result of people pondering at the summer's end the meanings in the Watergate hearings and the economic poundings and seeing this nation rushing toward scarcity while a helpless and indifferent Administration is absorbed in its own salvation...