Word: helplessly
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...losing my humanity. Surrounded by repeated images, discussions, accusations, threats, curses, and the whizzing of fighter jets overhead, I fluctuate between solitary disbelief and solitary horror. For although I have never felt more communally connected to my fellow New Yorkers, I have also never felt quite so stranded, helpless, alone. All I can think to care about at this precise moment, all I can think to listen for over the drone of the newscaster’s voice citing a death toll in the thousands, is the slight click on the other end of that damn phone, the slight catch...
...Tigers’ first goal in the 27th minute. Gunther, who broke almost every Harvard record possible for a goalkeeper in her freshman year, collided with her defender as they tried to clear a cross. The ball popped loose to Reyes who calmly buried a bullet past the helpless Gunther, who could only watch from the ground. Gunther had not even touched the ball in the first 25 minutes of the half...
Easley isn't the only Governor feeling helpless. After a decade of good times, most state governments are being forced to either slash budgets, spend their savings or raise taxes. So far, 17 states have dealt with shortfalls...
...sure to enrage some of his more conservative constituents, and not without political risks. If the Senator is seen as urging Bush to break his campaign promise to end the funding, he could suffer for it later at the hands of Republicans angered at the President?s choice but helpless to oppose it publicly. And if he is acting as the test balloon for the decision Bush has all but made, Frist could bear the brunt of criticism from research opponents...
...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...