Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police force was powerless. Wearing stolen fur coats and clutching pilfered dresses and shoes under their arms, drunken girls were convoyed by drunken sailors. Three sailors went through the broken window of a furniture store and climbed into bed. Typewriters were gaily smashed. One sailor kicked in a window, sheared off his toes. Another severed an artery while punching through the window of a brewery. Fires swept through a women's-wear shop, a drugstore, a jewelry shop. Firehose was uncoupled or cut as soon as it was laid...
...editor of the London Times H. de Vere Stacpoole wrote: "Sir: What are powerless politics, and how do they function and what do they...
Against the Elements. How 84 men, or any men, lived in those waters is difficult to say. Most hung grimly to life rafts, watching their comrades washed off and under, powerless to save them...
...have done something. But Lublin's land policy has already split up many of their estates among the peasants. The landlords have gone into local administrative posts (when they played ball with Lublin), or gone to jail (when they did not). In London the Government in Exile was powerless. Premier Tomasz Arciszewski could merely growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants"-a new version of the "enemy of the people," the formula...
After five and a half months of political nonentity, the practically powerless, constantly criticized Government of aging, well-meaning Premier Ivanoe Bonomi resigned last week. Several hours later Lieutenant-General of the Realm Prince Umberto was reported to have asked Ivanoe Bonomi, in the absence of any stronger candidate, to form a new Cabinet...