Word: helplessly
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...audience rose as both nations' anthems were played. From that point on, for the next two hours, it was hard to remember that during the bus ride that afternoon, the members of the orchestra and the journalists accompanying them had passed a poster of a giant fist slamming a helpless little Uncle Sam that read, "Smash...
Carroll thinks about the times he tolerated Bowman's erratic behavior, visiting the then teen-age athlete at the treatment center, bringing him clothes, and the years of struggle after. Says Carroll: "It's such a helpless feeling, when everything you think you've done has done nothing in the long...
...from China's economic boom. The possible taint of his Tiananmen activism had worn off; plenty of other former protesters were now striking it rich back home. Today, Chen helms a consulting company that helps Japanese pharmaceutical firms conduct clinical trials in China. "Without us, Japanese companies would be helpless," he says. "They don't know how business is done in China...
...Here at Harvard, where opportunities seemed endless, Barnhill felt helpless to change his uncle’s world...
Hillary has a history with the right. She didn't merely stand by her man during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. While "everyone else was crying and helpless" (as she put it to a friend), Hillary smote Bill's accusers with her famous "vast right-wing conspiracy" appearance on the Today show at the scandal's inception...