Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Mashita looked on in helpless horror, Mishima stripped to the waist and knelt on the floor, only inches away. "Don't be a fool, stop it!" the general cried. Mishima paid no heed. He followed to the letter the seppuku, the traditional samurai form of suicide sometimes called harakiri. Probing the left side of his abdomen, he put the ceremonial dagger in place, then thrust it deep into his flesh. Standing behind him, Masakatsu Morita, 25, one of his most devoted followers, raised his sword and with one stroke sent Mishima's severed head rolling...
...life of Keith Bush. It showed him being dressed, fed, bathed, shaved, given therapy, and finally being shifted in his bed during the night to avoid bedsores. Bush himself appeared in court slumped in a wheelchair. To show he was tragically alert though helpless, he tried but failed to shake Boccardo's hand when asked. The jury gave him everything that was requested: $3,000,000 for himself, half of which is for the projected cost of care for the 40 years he is expected to live; $500,000 for his wife; and $150,000 for his three children...
...ETOB ("every tub on its own bottom") remains the principal rule of allocation. By failing to assault vigorously the principle of ETOB, the memorandum inevitably stacked the arguments to support the status quo. ETOB really means that the deans and their faculties run roughshod over a relatively powerless administration, helpless to set priorities or to weigh alternative expenditures. Harvard must clearly have a systematic procedure for simultaneously appraising all possible options for raising and spending money. If the President and Fellows reassumed these functions which they have decentralized to the various schools, they might be better equipped to execute University...
Life in the Ruins. The biggest pyramid of all today, writes Mumford, is the welfare state, which has created a helpless, dependent populace by ministering to its every material need-a common charge. Yet it is easy to fault the welfare state now that its benefits are taken for granted. What about those outsiders-blacks, for example-who still yearn to sample its delights? Are their stomachs to be denied for the sake of their souls? Mumford is silent on the subject. It falls outside the angle of his vision. He is persuaded that the overcentralized society cannot be reformed...
Prime Obsession. Still, the people of South Milwaukee worry deeply that hard times might reach them. The combination of inflation, unemployment and rising taxes leaves them bewildered, angry and feeling helpless. "Our paychecks are bigger, but we take home less," says Mayor Grobschmidt, articulating his town's prime obsession. "Everybody's digging at us-the Federal Government, the state, the county. Those who've got money already seem to be getting ahead. Those who haven't, and that's most of us, are falling behind...