Word: helplessly
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...supply him with weapons and intelligence for his war against Iran in the 1980s, Saddam's invasion of Kuwait prompted President Bush to suddenly recognize him for the thug he'd always been, and begin painting him as a latter-day Hitler who had "invaded a small and helpless nation" and then "raped, pillaged and plundered...
...Christian sense, the holiday is about hope, and hope not in the midst of success and triumph, but hope in the midst of darkness and despair. It offers what has been termed a "sign of contradiction" to the world--a messiah who takes on the form of a weak, helpless infant and who brings light to the dark of the year...
...crazy as Downey's latest bout of self-destructive behavior seemed, it was pretty typical for someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol. Experts and addicts alike have long understood that willpower alone is helpless in the face of addiction, and in recent years science has started to figure out why. "The brain of a drug user," explains Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "is physically altered in ways that make it difficult to resist further...
...goals were not of the weak variety either. For Harvard's first power play goal, Nowak blasted it past a helpless Brian Eklund with 30 seconds left on the power play. The next two power play goals came so quickly that the Bears were probably still waiting for the referee to drop the face...
...Crimson did not score again until the middle of the third period, when Botterill set Shewchuk free on a coast-to-coast breakaway. Shewchuk accelerated across mid-ice at maximum speed with an unobstructed path to the net and the game on the line. Van Beusekom was helpless to stop...