Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funeral 10,000 police officers lined the pavement, helpless as their colleague was taken to his burial...
Forty years later, Appelfeld is regarded as one of Israel's best novelists -- though not necessarily its most typical. Living in a nation whose people have aggressively reversed the role of outsider and helpless victim, he still writes what he describes as a literature of uprootedness. In his new novel, The Immortal Bartfuss, the concept of a Jewish homeland is not relevant. Bartfuss, the emotionally anesthetized protagonist, does not even have a proper home. He sleeps in a room apart from a wife he avoids and two daughters he scarcely knows. Bartfuss is some sort of underworld trader who keeps...
...Helpless enough to make the Regina, Saskatchewan native the top scorer on the Harvard women's hockey team with 11 goals and 13 assists for 24 points...
Call Brita Lind the "Regina Clipper." Her usual trademark is to fly past defensemen with the ferocity of an arctic breeze, leaving opposing goalies helpless...
...possession. Hockey, by design, is a game of swift attack, with one team flying up the ice and the other team returning the favor. But last night, Harvard kept the puck in its own end for an inordinate amount of time. The Army could only dig trenches and watch, helpless, as puck after puck spurted into...