Word: helplessly
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...persistent American myth regarding the deaf is that they are children of nature, well meaning and helpless. Mercy Coogan, Gallaudet's public relations director, has heard countless variations on the theme since Mesa's arrest. "People want to know how a deaf person could do this," she says. "The tendency is to say, 'Ah, God love 'em.'" This kind of condescension infuriates the deaf. And yet they too--for their own reasons--are stymied by Mesa's alleged confession...
...disorders don't necessarily have cut and dried definitions. We just look for names to call things by. We do know that it's an incredibly desperate act to kill your own children. And this is speculation, of course, but an act like that probably means Yates felt absolutely helpless and hopeless, and didn?t feel she could get help...
...position, it isn’t enough to say that low-level employees are currently unable to command higher wages. Instead, we have to say that they will never be able to do so—that there is something so fundamentally inferior about them that they are helpless to acquire the knowledge that would make their labor more valuable...
...that was not enough cause for jitters, Crockett also fell behind the eight-ball early when the Elis manufactured a run on a double-steal play in the top of first. His teammates, it turned out, were helpless to bail...
Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton administration spin during the 1999 bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of helpless ethnic Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo Liberation Army who were fighting a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against Belgrade's genocidal army. Well, guess what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of the KLA stripe to be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is also considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops police the border between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. NATO secretary general...