Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stave off outside forces and live independently. The second half concerns the coming of coal mining and company towns, the rise and decline of the union movement, the exhaustion of the old industrial base and the redemptive efforts of the environmental movement -- all outside forces that the locals are helpless to resist. The rhetoric begins with assertions of rampant individual freedom and evolves into a more mature recognition of individual responsibility...
...wouldn't have robbed that bank. That applies to just about everybody in this prison who ever held up anybody. Nobody robs a place with a knife or a can of Mace. I was 19, an eighth-grade dropout. If I'd known that things weren't as helpless as I thought they were, that would have stopped me. I wouldn't have felt so frustrated...
There it might have ended, except eyewitness accounts and leaks by investigators painted a picture of bungling, murder and cover-up. The scandal has ruined the careers of high government officials, and two GSG-9 men are under investigation for allegedly shooting Grams in cold blood as he lay helpless on track 4 of the Bad Kleinen station. The Red Army Faction, which had indicated that it might abandon violence, says it will resume its assassination tactics. The future of GSG-9 is in doubt, and Grams has become a martyr among young German leftists...
...Dust devil!" someone yells, and a stinging, 30-ft.-high spiral of sand, sagebrush, shale bits and a lizard or two snicks up the cliffside. Everyone grabs for the gliders, fluttering half assembled and helpless an hour before launch...
...flood does not discriminate. Among its detritus are picnic tables and automobiles, tree stumps and deer. At least two children. Even the barges that usually command the waterway as they move the river basin's produce to the rest of the world have been rendered helpless. They are inert and tethered to a vanished shore. The high waters have made the river unnavigable; there is no longer enough clearance for large ships to pass under the Mississippi's bridges...