Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only 21 belonged to the Nazi elite force known as the SS. That year the battalion participated in a roundup of Jews from the Lublin region of Poland. Thousands were hunted down and slaughtered in execution orgies that left the police splattered with the blood and brains of their helpless victims...
BOOKS . . . HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS: Based in part on German archives that have been neglected or ignored by other scholars, 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' contends that ordinary Germans were not passive and helpless witnesses to the Holocaust. Instead, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the perpetrators of the Final Solution were ordinary men and women, workers, merchants and so on, who ravaged the ghettos, brutally supervised the death camps and enthusiastically carried out Hitler's plan to destroy world Jewry. Goldhagen's indictment focuses on the citizenry's complicity in three specific "institutions of mass killing": Germany's police battalions...
...pray to God that the co-chairs of the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice, in saying, "Additionally, the chart on page 10...mocks the patriotism and service of Americans who gave their lives for a country founded on the freedom and choice" (Feb. 28) are not suggesting that helpless children who have lost their lives to abortion were lost in the names of patriotism, freedom and choice. Because if that is what they are suggesting, I think I am going to be sick. --Michael V. Ziniti...
...People feel helpless and frustrated because it doesn't feel like there is much one can do, either here or in Israel," Andorsky said...
...ethicists has been transposed to grim reality in upstate New York. In 1985 a highway accident smashed the promise of a 19-year-old Cornell University freshman, putting her into a coma-like state. Then in August someone at the Westfall Health Care Center in Brighton, N.Y., raped the helpless woman, a fact deduced last month when the woman, now 29, was found to be five months pregnant...