Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Betancourt by direct frontal attack. But they are persistent at sabotage and artful in harassment, hoping to prove that Betancourt cannot maintain order. So far, the tough old ex-revolutionary - who wants to be come his country's first freely elected President to survive his term - has been powerless to end the terrorism...
...Governor-appointed Ole Miss board of trustees was powerless to prevent the usurpation of its authority and functions by Ross Barnett, but in Alabama the constitution, as the result of a turn-of-the-century scandal over political meddling in the university, makes the trustees independent by providing that vacancies on the board are to be filled by vote of the board itself. Ole Miss is a way of making Mississippi kids into Mississippi adults; Alabama is more rigorously concerned with the pursuit of knowledge...
Along the Grand Canal in Venice, a huge, brightly lit red-and-white shield of the Christian Democratic Party gleams in the night; sprouting from Rome's Janiculum Hill, overlooking the Vatican, is the red-white-green flame of the tiny, powerless Fascists. From Messina to Milan last week, wide piazzas and narrow alleyways sprouted in riotous campaign colors, and echoed with the loudspeaker slogans of scudding little Fiat 600s, as Italy's 34,-300,000 voters prepared to go to the polls for the first national election in five years...
Short weeks before, the skinny, crew-cut teen-ager seemed beyond medical help. Fred Wallace was literally bleeding to death. And the doctors at Baylor University Medical Center seemed powerless to help. They gave heroic round-the-clock care, a record number of transfusions (932 pints of blood and plasma), and still Fred's life dripped steadily away. Then, suddenly, he got better. As he hobbled out of the hospital on his crutches last week and headed for his home in Muskogee, Okla., a team of dedicated physicians and surgeons was still wondering how an ordinary case of hemophilia...
Harvard reestablished its claim to the Eastern baseball championship Saturday with a surprising 12-1 conquest of Navy at Annapolis. Powerless against the delivery of Paul Del Rossi and weak in pitching, the Midshipmen did not resemble the potnant favorites they are supposed...