Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polish officials "will see that they can't commit their crimes with impunity," Baranczak said, adding, "Unfortunately, we are helpless in not being able to impose any concrete sanctions...
Because I know the possibilities open to the severely disabled, I am greatly disturbed by Whose Life Is It Anyway? The picture of quadriplegia that is portrayed in the play, of the immobile helpless patient, is no longer valid...
...news from Poland indicated that the military regime was successfully breaking resistance, critics across the political spectrum accused the Administration of looking the other way while freedom was being smashed in Poland. From the right, outraged New York Times Columnist William Safire charged the Administration with "helpless tut-tutting" and said Reagan and his aides had been guilty of "moral paralysis." From the left, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts denounced "some who say we cannot take a firm stand on Poland because that will offend the Soviets...
Actually, it was the Wildcats' pilot light that turned to flame first, after Fusco went off for an interference penalty at 6:24. The UNH power play clicked almost immediately, as center Paul Barton tipped a Craig Steensen slapshot from the blueline past a helpless Wade Lau just 13 seconds into the penalty...
...focuses his fiercest and most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...