Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department, which recognizes the perils of a non-participation policy more clearly than most branches of the government, is virtually powerless to change the situation even if it wanted to. Its decisions on what is good for the country are already unpopular enough among other Departments to minimize the effects of approving attendance at the Festival. In future hearings, the fact of participation in a Communist-dominated activity would scarcely be mitigated by an ancient endorsement...
CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...
...teamsters a solid if difficult union with which to do business have not moved for a revolution which might bring in the unpredictable. The little businessmen who have been hit by the thuggery and extortion which comes so easily into a craft union like the teamsters are almost powerless to do anything...
They insisted it was too early yet for any worthwhile prognosis. They said medical science is far from powerless in dealing with cancer. Perhaps more importantly, they said no doctor ever would count out a man of Dulles' physical strength and will power...
...confer such authority . . . The police power cannot be asserted to thwart or override the decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, state or federal . . . No fair-minded person would be so unreasonable as to seek to hold me responsible for failure to exercise the powers which the state is powerless to bestow...