Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done something a good deal stronger than ask-why could they not have said, since they were buying the building, "we want this building to stand with the school using it until we can find a mutually satisfactory replacement." To hear Mr. Gruson, one might suppose that Harvard was helpless in the matter...
...length of stay stretched out. It is now an average 4½ months. Many fatherless families live in places like the Hamilton Hotel, where they huddle in one or two filth-encrusted rooms, some of the children dull-eyed and incoherent from illness, the adults too confused and helpless to ward off the misery or the rats...
Cranston and Saxbe decided to work quietly and concentrate on step-by-step changes the would stir scant controversy. They enlisted the help of Hughes, a former Governor who felt helpless as a Senator ("You have no command. You have to do what other people decide at their times"), and Schweiker, who had served eight years in the House and was struck by how much more slowly the Senate moved...
...most socially responsible leaders in the utility business. He is also a realist. Crippled by equipment breakdowns. Con Ed has been forced to cut voltage in controlled "brownouts" for the past two summers. Meantime, New Yorkers demand ever more power. Con Ed is all but helpless to supply it, because conservationists have won assorted court orders delaying the company's proposed new plants. They argue that power generation also generates pollution-and now Luce has publicly agreed with them...
...most sensitive problem was finding a way of holding Beria once he was under arrest. Explains Khrushchev: "The Presidium bodyguard was obedient to him. His Chekists would be sitting in the next room, and Beria could easily order them to arrest us all. We would have been quite helpless...