Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seven times Harvard's forceful power play met the malleable Brown penalty killers and helpless Harvey Saturday at Bright Center. Four times, the Crimson turned those power play into goals. Three would have been enough, as Harvard extra-man handled Brown...
Among the afflictions of old age, Alzheimer's is a particular affront. The degenerative mental condition, which affects some 2 million people in the U.S., robs its victims of their dignity and renders them helpless. They become confused, lose track of time and are eventually unable to recognize spouses and other loved ones. Physiologically, Alzheimer's manifests itself in the form of abnormal protein deposits in the brain. But the reason these insidious tangles and plaques build up remains unknown...
...Neill some of his greatest plays. "Love and Admiration and Respect" is a record in letters and commentary of a remarkably creative friendship. Only one problem proves insoluble: O'Neill's third wife Carlotta. Commins takes careful note of her offenses: after O'Neill breaks a knee and lies helpless in the cold, she crows, "How the mighty have fallen!" and abandons him. These scenes of marital melodrama almost rival the works from the master himself...
...When you're in the the hospital you feel helpless. You seek help from someone who seems like they deserve respect," said researcher Jocelyn J. Dunn, a fourth-year student at the Harvard Medical School...
...faith that it may be ready to move back toward a compromise. Our 19th century ancestors did a thorough job of divorcing feeling from intellect. Your 20th century ancestors are beginning to seek a reconciliation. For all our dials and buttons, we have known from the start how helpless we often are before the consequences of our ingenuity. One still sees a lot of machinery these days, but very little machine worship, and almost none of the irrational overconfidence in human knowledge that the 19th century willed...