Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas single-handedly completed the rout a few minutes later. Taking the ball at midfield; he cut in, out, and in again, leaving two defenders on the seat of their pants. All alone in front, Thomas drilled the ball past a helpless Spector...
...Santa Cruz County is heavy with fear. Said one apprehensive resident, E.H. Gransbury: "You expect this sort of thing down in Los Angeles, Sin City, but when it happens in a small community like ours it makes you feel that your hands are tied and you are perfectly helpless...
...Scranton commission did not address itself to the activities of the minority group of faculty members described by the jury. It did say that teachers did little or nothing to halt the disturbances, although some informally constituted themselves as marshals. One who watched, helpless, as the ROTC building burned, told the commission: "I have never in my 17 years of teaching seen a group of students as threatening, or as arrogant, or as bent on destruction." THE FUTURE. The jury, citing recent meetings at the university, said that "all the conditions that led to the May tragedy still exist." Referring...
...Jordanians are not bent on overthrowing Hussein, but the King's attempts to repress the guerrillas have turned many of that group against him. Even neutral Jordanians were repelled by the brutality of Hussein's army. In Amman, Bedouin soldiers slew wounded guerrillas, some while they lay helpless on stretchers. Others looted stores and houses and raped women at gunpoint. Onlookers insist that these were not Jordanian at all, but the Bedouin mercenaries from Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia who constitute a third of Hussein's army. "These foreign legionnaires didn't look on this...
...Gardner, children are not helpless victims. Instead of wasting time "blaming people for things that happened in the past, things that cannot be changed," they can "start doing the things that will make the future happier." They can, for example, "make it their business to find friends so that they'll be less lonely." But they must observe W.C. Fields' rule: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again: if after that, you still don't succeed, forget it. One thing to give up on rather quickly, the author suggests, is trying...