Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adopted the last four of the woman's eight children. But she also "called the D.A. and the police to see if I could make a citizen's arrest of the mother for endangering her kids. I wrote the politicians, but they don't care. The social workers were helpless. Finally I realized that if I wanted these women to take birth control, I'd have...
...going to have to tell another story. Yesterday, trucking along on the Interstate in rural Minnesota, I got my first flat tire. Luckily, it was the middle of the afternoon, so I just got out of my car and stood on the shoulder, trying to look helpless. Inside of ten minutes, a nice gentleman named Scott pulled over to help me. He taught me to change a tire while telling me about his three daughters and how he only hoped someone else would do the same for them...
Lecter, of course, escaped captivity near the end of Silence, novel and film, which was not good news for one of the fictional folks who had mistreated him when he was helpless. Another unfortunate consequence of Lecter at large became clear last week, when more than 1 1/2 million copies of Harris' Hannibal (Delacorte; 486 pages; $27.95) hit the display shelves in U.S. bookstores...
While the problems posed by, for example, outdated software in the payroll office were predictable enough and could be dealt with, the University is helpless to address any number of remaining problems and can at best come up with plans for dealing with them once they...
...years after the war, Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according to notes from a nameless bureaucrat, because he was blind and totally helpless. "I didn't know that," says Konecny, shaking her head sadly. Turning over the last papers, she sees in the place marked for her great-great-grandfather's signature a large X made in black ink by a trembling hand. For a moment, she has a glimpse back into...