Word: helplessly
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...nation thought itself more of a player than the U.S. From as early as the 17th century, many had seen the New World as the linchpin of a particularly optimistic End Times scenario. Unlike earlier believers who thought humans were helpless to influence God's cosmic plan, they thought they could trigger Christ's Millennium by purifying and perfecting America. Ministers preached America as Revelation's New Jerusalem. Many colonists saw the Revolution in millennial terms, with George III as the Antichrist. Those most convinced, whom we would now call Evangelicals, helped shape the nation's culture of civic engagement...
...working on his autobiography. Both cast doubt on Skakel's alibi but without demolishing it. Classmates from a private school Skakel attended in Maine--really a glorified rehab clinic where Skakel was sent after a drunken-driving arrest--said he talked about the murder. The accounts ranged from helpless uncertainty--he was drunk, he blacked out, he couldn't remember what had happened--to dumb arrogance: "I'm gonna get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy...
...summoned, Shady delivers the funniest diatribe in recent rap history. Over an upbeat snare reminiscent of Billie Jean and a woolly sax torn from the Coasters' playbook, Shady sums up his appeal: "Little hellions/ Kids feeling rebellious/ Embarrassed their parents still listen to Elvis/ They start feeling like prisoners, helpless." He says this at top speed with the clarity of Henry Higgins, over music that makes you want to get up and dance. In the Without Me video, he does a jig dressed as Osama bin Laden. Slim's art is offensive, but offensiveness...
...taller guy kicked him so hard that Onizawa fell to the ground. The guy with the pipe then went for his stomach and his knee. "I thought they were going to kill me," Onizawa recalls. But a bicyclist came into view and the assailants fled. "I felt so helpless," Onizawa says. "I couldn't fight back...
...Nariman's confinement and its effects on his daughter's once contented family. Medical costs take food off the table. One of the sons must sleep on the balcony. Then there are the realities of bodily decrepitude. Bowel movements and bedpans, stinks and sores become not only a helpless old man's cross to bear but a burden for those who love him most...