Word: helplessly
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...believe that most women are now aware of the evil side of Premarin, a medication that's prescribed to relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of menopause. It's made from the urine of pregnant mares and involves the pain and torture each year of nearly 100,000 helpless adult horses. For most of their 11 months' pregnancy, they are confined and tethered in narrow stalls on concrete floors while catheterized to devices that collect their urine. They can't move more than a step or two in any direction or lie down. And because Premarin farmers receive more money for concentrated...
...baggy jeans, high-tops, sweat shirts, bright blues, yellows, purples, greens. For most of them it is their first time in a synagogue. They stare with respectful interest at the formally dark-clad mourners enacting the sad familiar rituals of funerals--the brief embraces and the exchanges of helpless looks. A few of the students tremble and sob. One, verging on hysterics, has to be led away. The first of the eulogists, a college buddy of Jonathan's, praises him as "one who knew how to love and teach kids...
...jobs around the country, and was living in Denver. The charges stemmed from a rambling, five-page letter he wrote from the Denver County Jail, where he was awaiting prosecution on misdemeanor charges of beating his girlfriend. He wrote, "Think about what we put up with as helpless children. You beat us senseless, you terrorized us, you made us walk on eggshells, we feared you, and then Louise comes onto the picture. Instead of stopping his abuse, she kicks in." He blamed his own troubles with the law on having been abused and demanded $15,000 from Erdrich and help...
...barbarism, the degradation that helpless, innocent human beings suffered at the hands of Hitler's Nazi butchers is still horrendous enough. Now to learn that the Swiss banking system is holding on to millions in assets that belong to Holocaust victims or their heirs [WORLD, Feb. 24] is just another example of man's inhumanity. I hope that those fighting to right this wrong persevere and that justice prevails. NANCY L. MATSEY Grafton, West Virginia...
...extravagant p romises, Yeltsin wisely made few in a sober and sobering 24-minute address. One, to pay all pensions owed by June 3, actually drew some smiles from Duma members. Other skepticism was not so thinly disguised. Afterward, Communist Party leader Genna dy Zyuganov called the performance "miserable, helpless, buffoonery without any real content behind it. I would like to hear why there is no economic growth. And why pensions, social payments and wages are not being paid." Yeltsin's speech, though, demonstrated a full grasp of the why. The evident difficulty will...