Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remain low. Another result of the sales to the Reserve System, however, was that member banks received reserve money in return, on which they could base even greater amounts of new credit. So long as this policy kept the interest rate low and bank reserves high, the Reserve was powerless to take strong action toward decreasing the money supply--the primary source of inflation...
Europe: "We are in complete agreement on the need for immediate action by all the North Atlantic Treaty countries ... to strengthen the Atlantic community." This was meant to reassure Europeans that the U.S. would not get so embroiled in Asia that it would be powerless to help other allies...
...management the right to fire anyone for any reason without full union approval. Thus, by 1946, Reds had gained editorial control of Tokyo's major dailies. Although many of the Red leaders were finally ousted under the prodding of occupation authorities, many lesser Communists remained and management was powerless to do anything about them...
...Bureau of Naval Personnel, reporting himself fit and ready for active duty. He was assigned to a tour as an instructor in seamanship at the Naval Academy. He was fit enough to navigate a sloop in the grueling Newport-Bermuda race. But by a legal quirk, the Navy was powerless to put Rosenberg back on the active list without a special Act of Congress. Rosenberg started lobbying to get the bill through. Last week the Senate passed it, sent it to the House...
That night the Hutton style burst upon a relatively powerless world. Between choruses of Dipsy Doodle, she began to throw her body around as if she had no further use for it. She mugged, turned somersaults, hopped on musicians' laps and pulled their hair, fought off imaginary adversaries, tore up sheet music, swung Lopez off his feet, made a flying tackle at the microphone. In a favorite metaphor, Betty says: "I murdered the people...