Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Helpless, Manju, like many in her profession, is resigned to her fate. Returning home would not be an improvement. "Even if you work 24 hours a day in Nepal, you do not get enough to eat," she explains. "One can endure anything except hunger. If I were a man, maybe I would have committed murder to fill my stomach. But as a woman, I became a prostitute." It is a choice being forced upon too many. Along the highway of cheap love that now circles the globe, the cost in destroyed lives has become a blight to rival...
Even with all these steps, the procedure seems blessedly simple to most women. "Taking a pill seems far less murderous and violent to the child than using a vacuum cleaner," says a 31-year-old woman who has had both types of abortion. "You feel so helpless when they put you to sleep and you know they're going to be using their tubes and knives on you." Some women, however, become traumatized by the thought of performing an abortion with their own hand. After her experience with RU 486, Joelle Mevel, 34, vows that if there is a next...
Freshman Tripp TracyCrimsonG. Bart KasowskiJunior TED DRURY (18) the Ivy and ECAC Player of the Year, rockets the puck past a helpless goalie...
...moral and social development so arrested we're afraid to stand up to the [National Rifle Association] even when the prey is helpless children?" she asked. "National security has to be right here at home in our neighborhoods and in our schools...
...America is in danger of becoming two nations, one part privileged, the other deprived," she said in a voice that has been described by Hunt as "resounding like a trumpet, awakening us to the miseries of the helpless...