Word: helplessly
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...spectator, who said his father suffered from Alzheimer's disease, asked Bernstein who was responsible for caring for helpless human beings...
...embarked on risky trials of their own. Juan Carlos--he doesn't want his last name used--is a Colombian who lives in Miami. Though HIV positive, he's in good health. His five-year-old daughter, who also carries the virus, is not. Three months ago, she lay helpless in a local hospital. In just two weeks her weight dropped from 32 to 22 lbs. Even so, her father could not find a doctor who would risk giving her the new drugs. "They kept telling me, 'No, there are no data for children.' I said, 'Listen...
...hunting dogs to hunt bears or bobcats. Hounding, as this practice is called, "is the moral and sporting equivalent of shooting a caged animal," according to some state legislators who support Question One. Dogs with radio collars corner their prey, allowing the hunter effortlessly to locate and shoot the helpless animal...
Moreover, the Dole campaign continues to self-destruct. Even worse than taking a tumble, which resulted in pictures of the candidate helpless on the ground, and referring to the "Brooklyn Dodgers" (who moved to Los Angeles almost 40 years ago), Dole last week let Clinton win the endorsement of the nation's largest police union virtually by default...
...hears in his travels of people making precisely those kinds of tough choices, and finding fulfillment in them, and he wishes society would honor them more. "I can't accept," he says, "that we're helpless to save our families and our society without some new federal program or regulation." As individuals and through voluntary associations, he says, paraphrasing novelist Flannery O'Connor, we must push back as hard as the age that pushes against...