Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unassisted goal 38 seconds into the game. Harvard dominated the action in the remainder of the period so much that Tri-Captains Brita Lind and Julia Trotman decided to watch the rest of the game from the stands, along with the rest of the starting lineup. B.U. was still helpless against the onslaught of the Crimson's second and third lines in the last two periods...
...train out of the prosperous town of Basingstoke, 46 miles southwest of London, was idling a quarter-mile from Clapham Junction, Europe's busiest railway intersection, while driver Alex McClymont used a trackside phone to report a faulty signal. Tragically, it was too late for that. McClymont watched in helpless horror as a packed express train from the Channel coast rounded the curve at 50 m.p.h. and slashed into the rear of the stopped train. Seconds later an empty passenger train on an adjacent track slammed into the wreckage...
LEST we believe that a post-military era will be safe and relaxing, it should be noted that economic or technological dominance by a foreign power will as surely corrupt our culture and ideals as any invasion. Over the last two decades, we have been a helpless giant in Vietnam, in Lebanon, in Iran, in Nicaragua, in Panama. Our impotence has been manifest all over the world...
...quarterback Jim Schuman beat the blitzing Crimson defense with a 43-yd. pass to Sean Munroe. Harvard, which had used two of its timeouts on the previous scoring drive, was out of timeouts and could only watch, helpless, as B.U. ran out the clock...
...more I hear about such natural disasters, the more helpless I feel. There hasn't been such a slew of tragedies holding the media's attention since the big disaster movie boom of the 1970s when sharks, infernos and ship wrecks covered the movie ad pages. Perhaps the fact that so many natural disasters occurred within one short time period is just some sort of bad coincidence. But the fact that so many of these disasters are considered worst-evers in their categories probably has a more real-world cause...