Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informed of the amendment, much less the original ordinance. This is particularly true for new graduate students entering in September. Cambridge police privately acknowledge the unfairness of this lack of communication and feel that students should be informed via the University before being held liable for infractions. They are powerless, however, to do anything less than prosecute "violators" of the complicated ordinance...
...cooperation with the Americans. President Chamoun reproached the general for this, and for stationing 23 tanks on the approaches to the city, as if to guard it against the marines. "Where did these tanks come from?" Chamoun asked Shehab, who had in the past pleaded that he was powerless to chase the rebels to their lair. There was no answer...
Wang, however, is powerless to deal with the less educated. His appeal can only be made in language and logic which would be incomprehensible to the crowds on the Common. Ironically, this limitation on his audience destroys him. For his logic, exposed to the least sophisticated analysis, becomes illogic, and his language becomes the old refrain of hate...
...last week the Met's purchase of the altarpiece had become an international cause célébre. Said a resolution signed by 22 of Belgium's top museum directors and art teachers: "Often in the course of its history Belgium has had to witness, powerless, the destruction or pillage of its artistic patrimony. Once more, and this time without being able to cite the accident of bombardment or the whim of an invader, our country has just been dispossessed of an inestimable treasure, of the most important work in a Belgian private collection...
...Crimson basketball team romped over a powerless University of Massachusetts squad last night to open its season with an impressive 84-58 victory...