Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sharon Siebert, a former Minneapolis "Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes," and Husband Richard, a neurosurgeon, had been married for twelve years when, in 1974, she began to suffer brain seizures. A cyst operation led to meningitis, and by 1976 she lay helpless at St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center in Minneapolis. Finally, last August, her family and physician agreed that if Siebert's heart or lungs should fail, the staff was in effect to let her die. Now her condition is at the center of a debate about who, if anyone, can make such a decision for a patient...
...geniality is equal to his fears. What, specifically, he is afraid of is a secret, as it is with most successful people. But there is no secret about his ability to do a kind of stylistic judo on a potential threat. The voice softens to music; the eyes grow helpless, worried...
During her first months in the hospital, she was so helpless that she could not even do what she longed to do-take her own life. She begged a girlfriend to do it for her several times, but the friend refused. Encased in a canvas Stryker frame, Eareckson felt life was meaningless. "All those yardsticks for success that had come to mean so much to me were shattered-being pretty and popular, dating the right guys." The first time she went shopping for clothes, "they just hung on me like a sack." After waves of depression and a phase...
Still, both teams are helpless to control one-man missions like the one to Moscow two weeks ago by Republican Charles Percy of Illinois, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He boasted afterward that he had smoothed the way for reopening the SALT talks, which offended both Carter and Reagan aides. Percy also told Soviet leaders that he favored the establishment of a Pales tinian state, even if it were led by Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization - a step that is opposed by both Carter and Reagan...
THERE SAT the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, looking as helpless as Kojak without his Tootsie Pop. On his left, the Dean of Students of Harvard College, as forlorn as Charlie without his Angels. And above both of them towered the Dean of Harvard College, an elongated J.R. who'd just spent $2.5 million digging a dry well...