Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Burger took office, a test seizure of the S.S. Meacham had already been made by the Truman Administration, and the owner's appeal was laboriously dragging its way through the courts. The former Administration felt powerless to seize any more until the test case was determined. But as soon as Burger, 45, a St. Paul lawyer and an influential Ike-before-Chicago organizer, took over, he found an ingenious way of cutting the legal red tape...
...Syngman Rhee did only what he had warned he would do. The U.N. Command, and the rest of the world, had long regarded Rhee as an obstreperous but powerless old man who might threaten but would be brought to heel. Now an awful realization dawned: maybe the old man meant what he said. For Rhee, the release of the prisoners was entirely consistent. In more than half a century of fighting for a free and united Korea, he had made it clear by his acts that he was prepared for anything, from torture to an open break with his allies...
...this critical juncture in Democratic history, Lyndon Johnson fills a precise bill. He is no political boss, and this is a virtue because a boss would be useless without a machine. He is no disciplinarian, and this helps because a disciplinarian would be powerless in a party which is looking for an excuse to fly to pieces. Nor is he a statesman; this, too, is a virtue because the party, at the moment, stands to profit most by keeping quiet. Lyndon Johnson is a political operator. He senses political situations, understands individual motivations and moves swiftly to organize party positions...
Most cities saddled with an ineffectual mayor and aldermen can vote them out of office. But voters in the District of Columbia, whose city council is the United States Congress and whose mayor the President, have no such easy recourse. The barbed problem of segregation illustrates their powerless position; the citizens can do nothing but hope that their preoccupied administrators will eventually offer a solution...
Nick Bunt and the angry council asked the Bishop of Truro to remove Densham. Under the Church of England's constitution; however, the bishop was powerless, for the rector had committed no crime, and he was conducting the services acceptably. Stuck with their rector, the flock retaliated by refusing to go to church. Some went to other Anglican churches; others drifted off to Warleggon's Methodist chapel. After 1935, not a soul among Warleggon's parishioners entered the church for Sunday services again...