Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home in New York City's Harlem. By nine, he was a chronic and violent troublemaker. When he was given mental tests, he threatened to set fire to the hospital ward and kill a doctor. The tests showed that Bosket was suffering from a severe antisocial personality disorder. His helpless mother had him sent to a reform school, where he began to emulate his father...
...world is misbehaving again, and George Bush's puppy presidency, like Jerry Ford's English-muffin phase, has passed from American screens. Once again, as so often before, troops moved through the night; a defiant dictatorship strode the dark streets of a tiny, helpless nation; NATO complained and quibbled; the Soviets unexpectedly moved a bishop in the great chess game of power. The convicted ghost of Ollie North haunted Pennsylvania Avenue, and House Speaker Jim Wright -- a linchpin in this Government, like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious...
...helpless and so absurd. The police wore baby-blue helmets. They marched in military formation. It was so stupid...
...Philip Roth said that we live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow's newspaper. And it's true! No one can dream up the things that pop up in the papers every...
Clients appreciate the fact that Ovitz not only pampers them but also teaches them to become more self-sufficient. Says actress Sally Field, a CAA client: "We used to be totally helpless, talking about what lessons to take or how thin we'd got our thighs while we waited for the phone to ring. Michael encouraged me to pick up the phone and develop my own projects. He told me, 'Be your own studio...