Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old ruler fled Lhasa. Eventually the Communists persuaded him to return. Since then the young Dalai Lama and his junior, the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important Incarnation, have lived like highly prized dolls in the hands of Tibet's Communist masters, powerless, yet indispensable because of the religious fealty they command. Last week the Dalai Lama was being feted in India, having been allowed for the first time to travel outside his Red prison. Seldom had India given such a welcome to a foreigner...
...others, of the down-at-heel and down-at-heart. But otherwise, there is a sharp contrast between two lives badly lived and two not lived at all, and a glorious opportunity, on the stars' part, for virtuoso acting. Actor Portman changes as brilliantly from an enraged but powerless bull to a neatly clipped but bleating, lamb as does Actress Leighton from a hard, sick, glossy siren to a sick, quivering dowd. And, as staged by Peter Glenville, both productions are consistently adroit theater, full of gaudy character acting and authoritative ensemble playing...
...cheerfully that a constantly increasing population, the vast new opportunities unlocked by the atom, and the whole new field of electronics all help to assure continued high employment and demand for goods. But Martin contends that the risk of boom and bust is too dangerous, since the FRB is powerless to reverse full-scale depression. It takes more than easy credit to persuade a businessman to turn out goods for which there is no market. Argues Martin: "The Federal Reserve cannot turn the economy off and on like a faucet. But we can minimize fluctuations, and we have the responsibility...
Oddly enough, these were the first U.N. casualties since the 1949 truce. But the lot of the U.N.'s 60 unarmed policemen on the world's hottest frontier has never been a happy one. Lonely, unloved, powerless, they keep round-the-clock watch in border dugouts, alert for mischief and ready to radio their chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, in case of trouble. Their cars have been burned and stoned. They have come under fire that they swear was not accidental. They have been ignored. When the Israelis staged their big El Auja...
...able to maintain enough political power in the Congress to protect its interests [through seniority on powerful House and Senate committees, etc.]. The third party led by J. Strom Thurmond-also of South Carolina-in 1948 should have taught us a lesson . . . Such movements could leave the section politically powerless, with all that this implies...