Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope I will have the faithfulness of my calling to be prepared to do that if I ever felt that our government and nation were either reneging on Christian values and commitment to the poor and helpless or acting in such a way that they were denying Christian truth. I have a very close relationship with the Prime Minister ((John Major)) and the ministers of government. We talk a lot to the Foreign Office about our hostages in Lebanon and about other things because the Anglican Communion is very much an international body. We are actually more international than...
...Nancy Modiano, a 30-year-old Hamilton, N.J., resident, agrees with Heimlich. She thinks she contracted Lyme disease as a teenager. By last year she was helpless, subject to vomiting and seizures, her joints so swollen that she couldn't operate her wheelchair. She flew to Mexico City last November and was injected with malaria. For 35 days her fever would spike to 108 degrees, then drop to 95 degrees. Yet two weeks after the induced malaria was cured, she was learning to walk again. Though she still has some Lyme symptoms, her recovery continues. She sums up the experience...
...really no wonder that we know all the bad things about Israel. No wonder we read constant criticism of the Jewish state for its continued occupation of the territories. No wonder we see news footage of Israeli soldiers beating helpless Palestinians, hear upsetting stories of political and economic inequalities within Israeli society and listen to speeches charging Israel with stalling the peace process...
...hill yells, "Helicopters! Helicopters!" There are seven of them, all firing rockets. There is incoming artillery fire: Boom- whistle-bang-boom-whistle-bang-boom-whistle-bang. What follows is a mad melee of men scattering like quicksilver into gullies, ditches, crevices, behind hillocks, into hollows. The peshmerga are helpless before these gunships, but it is not for want of trying. They tear open with everything they have: antiaircraft guns, rockets, small arms, machine guns, even mortars. But their fire is confused and disorganized. The "damnation birds" keep wheeling around and coming back, untouchable...
...reports does not mention excessive speed. The manufacturer later stated that the car could not exceed 100 m.p.h. The police said they subdued King because he reached into his pocket as he emerged from the car, a movement they felt was menacing. Yet the videotape shows the man lying helpless on the ground as the officers repeatedly beat and kicked him. One eyewitness said that she heard King begging the policemen to stop and that they "were all laughing, like they just had a party." When King was released from jail three days later, he told reporters he was "lucky...