Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once she was silent and confused, she is direct and focused. This is all the more remarkable since, as she calmly informs Cardis, last October she underwent surgery for breast cancer. In the days before her forgiveness sessions, such a setback would have sent her into a vortex of helpless rage, and she admits, "At first I wanted to blame someone." That passed, however. The cancer has apparently not spread, and she values her new composure. "I can buy another breast," she explains. "I can't buy another life...
...frail, disheveled, elderly man, hopped up on amphetamines and wearing a ratty raincoat--and announce, in a thick Hungarian accent, "My mind is open." For a day, or a week or a month, the man or woman who answered the knock would have to take nonstop care of this helpless guest who couldn't figure out how to cut a grapefruit or wash his underwear--and in return would be permitted the exhausting, exhilarating experience of following the thought processes of Paul Erdos, the most prolific and arguably the cleverest mathematician of the century...
...Harvard's fearsome top line wove through the offensive zone Saturday night to bombard helpless Dartmouth goaltender Meghan Cahill as though it were a shooting drill, it triggered something much more special than the red light...
...feeling helpless, it is not necessarily a sign that you should be doing something more to help your friend. It is simply a sign that there is a real limit to what friends can do to change another person. Remember that you are never helpless in making an authentic response to someone...
There's not much more reaction to muster for the Harvard women's water polo team, which absolutely blistered four helpless divisional opponents this weekend...