Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Iran is critical to our interests, should send the Shah a public message that the U.S. still cares, and that it still knows a few tricks in the big power game. It has always been Helms' view-one his detractors call simplistic-that we are only as helpless as we think...
...lunch in a road house without a chaperon, or go on a journey that can by any possibility last over night. To go out with him in a small sailboat sounds harmless enough, but might result in a questionable situation if they are becalmed, or if they are left helpless in a sudden fog. The Maine coast, for example, is particularly subject to fogs that often shut down without warning ... A man and a girl went out from Bar Harbor and did not get back until next day. Everyone knew the fog had come in as thick as pea soup...
George Appleton, who runs the Nashville Banner's Help Desk column, is most concerned about missing persons. He once helped an old Eskimo woman in Alaska trace her son and daughter to Nashville two decades after the mother found herself helpless and separated from her family following an accident that left her a double amputee living on welfare. Not all such stories end happily. One holiday season Appleton successfully traced an aging Nashville woman's long-strayed son to North Carolina, but the son did not want to see his mother. "She took it poorly," Appleton says sadly...
...ended halfway through the second 10-minute overtime period when Wesleyan's Paul Roland emerged from a scramble for the ball at the 18-yd. line, then laid a beautiful pass at the feet of Stan Hamilton. Hamilton had the simple task of shooting across the goalmouth past a helpless Harvard goalie Billy Blood for the game winner...
Neil Young will be in Boston Garden on Wednesday the 4th at 8.p.m., and rumor has it that a crazy horse will be with him. Tickets are $7.50 to $10.50. But be forewarned: he may just leave you helpless, helpless, he-elpless...