Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Skinheads in England arose in the seventies, just like the mods, the rockers, the punks," says James Miller, a lecturer in the Social Studies department and music writer for Newsweek magazine. "They achieved notoriety for attacking helpless Pakistanis...
...backyard. Trapped underground for 58 desperate hours, the child seemed doomed. Yet a down-but-determined West Texas town rallied round and literally clawed its way to her rescue. The drama offered the ultimate counterpoint: the dark currents of world events shared the screen with the whimpers of a helpless toddler crying out for "Mommy...
Hearing the sound of a small plane overhead, some of the 15 to 20 swimmers in the open sea 20 miles off the Dominican Republic gestured frantically for help. The plane was unable to put down on water, however, and its occupants could only look on in helpless horror at the scene unfolding beneath them. The swimmers, passengers on a sinking people-smuggling ship bound for Puerto Rico, were under siege by dozens of sharks. "In one instance we saw a shark literally throw someone in the air and then attack the person," recalled one of the witnesses, Eugenio Cabral...
...have no need for the weak and helpless in the Quad. Only the strong must survive!" said one important official who asked not to be blamed for anything bad, adding, in an apparent lapse of short term memory, "We have no need for the weak and helpless in the Quad. Only the strong must survive...
Asked to assess his past, du Pont is helpless. There are no traumatic childhood memories, few personal crises in his charmed adult life. When pressed for a formative experience, du Pont harks back to his three years in the late 1950s as a Navy maintenance officer at the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine. His duties included keeping the runways free of snow, and he obligingly strains to find some germ of leadership in those days...