Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before fire fighters could get the flames sufficiently under control for the first rescue workers to enter the devastated area that its people call San Juanico. They found corpses carbonized in pitiful gestures of self-defense. Some were huddled together; others lay alone in their beds, arms raised in helpless protest...
...Crimson's fast-paced game--the squad's greatest asset this season--baffled a helpless Bulldog defense...
...nothing is perfect. "If people try hard enough and long enough and are cunning enough they can penetrate almost anything," Ganaghan says. Further, even the most effective security system is helpless against an inside attack--the kind of computer crime security consultants say is most frequently practiced. "Insider crime, people stealing data or money using information they've gotten during the course of the day, is definitely our biggest problem," says Jim Greenleaf a computer crime specialist at FBI headquarters in Boston...
...blame for "unwillingness ... to concede to the Indians the right of self-government." Churchill passionately answers that "anything like a serious difference between you and me would break my heart," but he declares just as passionately that Britain will do what it must "to defend this vast mass of helpless Indians...
...following Saturday, Landry was helpless as dogged Bruin defenders bottled her up all morning and propelled their squad to a 1-0 victory over Harvard...