Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is not the way things were supposed to be, and Lottman is painfully aware of it, but without the money to pay competitive wages, he feels powerless to do much. At any rate, SNCC workers have from time to time lashed out at the notion of a white-dominated newspaper for Negroes. As one SNCC staffer put it, "Man, it's just one more white man tryin' to tell me what to think." SNCC seriously discussed at one point organizing a boycott of the Courier. The idea apparently was forgotten by the time of last year's elections, when...
Were Collins' candidacy a known fact, other candidates might withdraw and enter the camps of stronger, more widely known anti-Collins candidates. But most of the lesser lights, frustrated by long, powerless years in the Council or the General Court, are unwilling to let what seems to be a golden opportunity...
...even reached the outskirts of Jerusalem, where they bombed an apartment building only a mile from the home of Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. Sometimes they crossed over from Lebanon, sometimes from Syria, where they were actually based. But more often, they sneaked in through Jordan, where King Hussein seemed powerless to stop them. Last week, Israel finally struck back with the white-hot fury of the desert sun itself, launching its biggest, bloodiest, boldest reprisal since the Suez campaign ten years...
Though meteorologists now know enough about tornadoes to predict with reasonable accuracy when they are likely to occur, they are powerless to prevent the deadly funnels from forming and cutting their swaths of destruction. Help may be on its way. A NASA scientist has conducted laboratory tests suggesting that tornadoes are electrically driven phenomena that can be dissipated simply by shorting them...
...most serious consequence of American control is that Canadans feel powerless to manage their own economic life. All Canadians realize that decisions made in Washington or on Wall Street, over which they have no influence, can affect their lives as much as decisions made in Ottawa or the provincial capitals...