Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson tri-captain Anya Cowan made a spectacular diving stop on Maul's initial attempt, but junior forward Melanie Meerschwam found the rebound sitting in front and fired a bullet past a helpless Cowan...
...changes at different times of the day and year. Sometimes the fish go for the nymph, the youngest stage, at the bottom of the river. Sometimes they wait for the flies when they are emerging upward, attached to a self-created gas bubble. When the fly matures, it lies helpless on the top of the water until the bubble explodes and frees its wings. The fish will try for it then too, and you imitate that stage with a dry fly on the surface. It's a matter of educating yourself--about the insects, fish and water...
Confronted by the Huskies adventurous sophomore goalkeeper Kathleen Madaua, Nagle fought hard for control of the ball, and slipped an easy shot past a helpless Madaua lying sprawled on her back...
...villainous cult's poorly veiled similarities and references to South Asian religions, including Hinduism. As David Sterritt of the Christian Science Monitor wrote in 1989, "racist implications...became uncomfortably strong in 'Temple of Doom,' where Indy strutted like a Great White Hero among people of color who were consistently helpless, villainous, or both...
...dead. Ten thousand injured, 18,000, 34,000. As the tolls rose each day, the figures grew numbing, the magnitude of the disaster hard to grasp. Almost 100,000 Turks left homeless; $20 billion lost in property and production; a sense of despair overtaking the country. THE PEOPLE ARE HELPLESS, THE STATE IS HELPLESS, WE CAN'T EVEN FIND ANYWHERE TO PUT OUR DEAD, read the headline in the Sabah newspaper...