Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City councils in general have felt helpless to act," said Barrett, adding that the issue has received little attention...
...gone over and over it in my mind," Newhouse said, "and its just sinking in that we lost like that. We just all felt so helpless, having to watch those kicks...
Mangano noted that Tent City's motto is, "homeless, not helpless." While his department has worked to advice the tenants on finance and employment, he said that "these people really want to be independent." Nevertheless, Mangano said the city is ready to step in and aid the tenants in the event that they cannot afford their rent...
Scott Fusco sat in the stands, helpless to stop the screaming with a goal. Bourbeau's magic wand turned into--gasp--a hockey stick...
Despite the success of the TV series, which is still being syndicated to this day, Superman had some bad times during the '50s and '60s. For all his superpowers, he proved quite helpless against the onslaughts of Dr. Fredric Wertham, onetime senior psychiatrist for New York City's department of hospitals and author of a widely read anticomics diatribe, Seduction of the Innocent (1953). Though much of Wertham's crusade was a commendable attack on the sadism in crime and horror comics, he denounced Superman before legislative committees on rather dubious political grounds. He attached weighty significance to the derivation...