Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Pierre wants to take her picture. She demurely tells him to wait, to let her clean herself up. Pierre's camera focuses on this helpless babe crying to be heard. How she should be protected, not accused. Her shiftlessness comes from her need for love. This is the epitome of innocence...
...want to cry in outrage against the murders of innocent Israelis. I cannot because in my name innocent Asians are killed every day. I am tired and ashamed of living in this glass house I didn't build and feel helpless to remodel. Help lift this guilt from me, from America's shoulders, so that once more I can cry out against murder and injustice without the rest of the world replying "Hypocrite...
Ushering his two guests into his laboratory, the Doctor proudly points out several of his experiments: a study of premature ejaculation in hippos, the transplantation of the brain of a lesbian into a telephone repairman, and one bizzare experiment in which the Doctor feeds a helpless young lady nothing but Silicone. The effects are enormous...
...evidently been planned to create maximum outrage. It succeeded, probably beyond its planners' wildest dreams. By invading the Olympic Village and seizing nine Israeli athletes as hostages and killing two others, eight young Palestinians managed to expose every weakness in the forces of law and in the helpless governments involved in the crisis. The failures of security, of crisis judgment and of police operations and information will be debated for months to come. Beyond that, the guerrillas set off a widening wave of diplomatic, political and military consequences...
...first time in Olympic history the flags of 122 competing nations and the Olympic flag flew at half-staff. Munich's Philharmonic orchestra played the sad strains of the funeral movement of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. Declared West Germany's President Gustav Heinemann: "We stand helpless before a truly despicable...