Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racking Task. Piled atop his economic problems, President Kubitschek has a full share of political worries. Within the armed forces, the "preventive revolution" left resentments strong enough to be troublesome if the government stumbles. Vice President Goulart, powerless under the constitution to do anything more than preside over the Senate, is likely to go his own political way, looking ahead to the 1960 election. Kubitschek is still under suspicion, in Brazil and abroad, of having made some kind of election deal with the Reds; anything he does or says that relates to Communism will be examined for signs that...
...blitz purge of the building-workers' locals was big news in West Germany last week, reflecting a new awareness of an infiltration that most West Germans had long thought themselves immune to. Though the Communists are almost powerless at the polls (they lost their 14 remaining Bundestag seats in the last national elections), they have deeply infiltrated West German industry...
...ugly word, and in the Chamber, Deputies were sobered. Faure made a last, stern appeal: stop bickering, and make up your mind on what France should do in North Africa. Lest France be left alone and friendless in the world, he pleaded, "we must have a clear policy-not powerless sulking...
...monarch. He also helped to win his country's freedom from French colonial rule, led his army in a skirmish against invading Viet Minh Communists and encouraged his diplomats to stand up successfully to Molotov and Chou Enlai at last year's Geneva meeting. Yet he felt powerless really to run his land, to keep it clear of corruption and out of a head-in-sand neutrality. Cambodia, he decided, is a monarchy ruled by politicians; he would become a politician...
Concluded the decision: "The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless...