Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unit to act as a team in a combat situation. Individual soldiers would not feel they could always depend on their homosexual counterparts in dangerous situations. These soldiers would be less willing to take the risks necessary to succeed in combat. As a result, American soldiers could die needlessly, helpless guinea pigs in a social experiment gone wrong...
...start of the second half, we just lost all the momentum," Proudfit said. "They like to run, and they just ran a bunch of fast breaks. It felt like a helpless situation...
...result, he said, students tend to respond in a "helpless" way to academic difficulties and failure...
...Sometimes the caller may feel helpless and frustrated, when a person feels they cannot be helped," Langston says...
...ended; occupying foreigners, ruins, humiliations and guilt filled the Japanese landscape of his adolescence. His early fiction and essays were unusually intense by Japanese standards, tinged with pessimism and despair. After 1963, when his first son was born brain damaged, Oe's work became even more personal; a helpless or deformed child figure recurs, suggesting both implacable fate and the possibility of redemption. Compared with the four previous laureates -- Octavio Paz, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott and Toni Morrison -- Oe is little known but, thanks to the Swedish Academy, not for long...