Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard got a slow start in the first game, but Trumbull put the team on the right track, serving for five consecutive points and giving the Crimson a commanding 6-1 lead over the apparently helpless visitors...
Child abuse, both sides agree, makes the issues particularly agonizing, because the person seeking religious counsel is often continuing the offense. "You have a helpless third person who may suffer while counseling goes on," says Lynn Buzzard of the Christian Legal Society. "I got a call involving a pastor who had been told by a husband and wife that the husband had sexually abused their child. The pastor was torn. He was concerned about the child, but he also said, 'My God, this is their first cry for help ever.' " The Rev. Charles Eastman, head of Miami...
...even by the standards of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Late last week the Iranian leader issued a statement denouncing his own state radio for applauding the unidentified terrorists who had planted mines in the Red Sea. Radio Tehran had lavishly praised that action, declaring: "All the arrogant powers are helpless, unable to save the dozens of ships facing destruction in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea every day . . . Now Washington, Paris and London will not be able to find a secure place to stand in pursuing their scornful goals...
PAUL VERHOEVEN'S thriller opens with a shot of a screen-sized spider devouring its helpless prey. The movie ends on the same picture. While the two hours in between are entertaining enough a witty and sometimes outrageous romance complete with homosexual obsession, witchcraft, and enough lurid fantasy to earn the picture an X. The Fourth Man is nonetheless predictable and studied, almost like a computer's wet dream...
...that the prime interest rate fell from 21.5%." (Applause.) "... that we cut taxes for every American." (Applause.) Hoboken, New Jersey. A spaghetti dinner at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church. "Why do those who claim to represent the party of compassion feel no compassion whatsoever for the most helpless among us-the unborn." (Applause.) The punchy rhetoric, the actor's timing, the roar of the crowd, all could mean only one thing: the Gipper was back on the campaign trail. During the long primary season, Ronald Reagan had let the Democrats slug it out among themselves...