Word: helplessly
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...could not afford to manifest any anger. Keep in mind, I was always mad at myself because I asked for the special counsel and it was a horrible mistake. I really thought it was an up-and-up deal. The thing that really angered me was I felt helpless because I felt like I had set in motion a chain of events in a good-faith effort to reassure mostly the press more than the American people--the people didn't care--that I hadn't done anything wrong in Whitewater and neither had Hillary. And now Hillary, Susan McDougal...
...party.” But the celebration didn’t end in Worcester. In the Crimson’s 28-20 upset of then-No. 10 Northeastern on Oct. 4, Edwards finished with seven catches for 180 yards and two TDs as the Huskies’ secondary was helpless to stop him. His speed garnered him an additional 53 yards on punt returns and a reverse...
...surviving officers to get off the beach and up to higher ground. But it would be some time before enough courage returned for us to attempt it. One or two times I was able to control my fear enough to race across the sand to drag a helpless G.I. from drowning in the incoming tide. That was the extent of my bravery that morning...
...dreams before my helpless sight / He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. / If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace / Behind the wagon that we flung him in, / And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin….My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori...
...lacking is how we convince people." But Megawati is a notoriously reticent public speaker, which often makes her seem imperious and detached. Adding to this perception, she skipped a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the Bali bombings, sending Yudhoyono instead; and two years ago, her administration appeared helpless in the face of Malaysia's expulsion of 20,000 Indonesian migrant workers who were crammed into refugee camps...