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Word: helplessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ensure that child's safety. People must be exhorted by all means possible--legislation, ongoing public-awareness campaigns or whatever it takes--to denounce the mistreatment of children. As the mother of a six-year-old, I am numb with sadness thinking that other poor sweet children like helpless Elisa are still living in hell on earth. CATHERINE F. ST.-AMANT Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1996 | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

However, he was helpless on the only tally--when Scott Stevens had three open, undefended chances to put the biscuit...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: There's No Defense | 12/9/1995 | See Source »

...other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room at the Top), the plays of John Osborne (Look Back in Anger)--no longer excite much passion or even interest. Lucky Jim is still as fresh, and as capable of reducing a reader to helpless laughter, as it was 41 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE IRRITABLE YOUNG MAN: KINGSLEY AMIS (1922-1995) | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...Baverstock added extra insurance when she took a feed from Carabino inside the box and beat a helpless Burney with 26:16 left in the contest...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women's Soccer Spooked UConn | 11/1/1995 | See Source »

With the chippy Axemen down a player due to unsportsmanlike conduct, Konik broke down the right side. He threaded a beautiful lead pass to a streaking Nielsen, who guided the puck past a helpless Scott to give Harvard a 3-2 lead...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: M. Hockey Axes Acadia, 4-3 | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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