Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people, the real feeling of luxury is increasingly based not on goods but on service. Tipping seeks to buy that feeling -usually in vain. In crowded restaurants, in huge, barracks-like apartment buildings, at the mercy of deliverymen or repairmen, in dozens of other situations that make the individual powerless, he seeks feebly to reassert himself through tipping...
...Securities & Exchange Commission, which requires full disclosure of a company's prospects when it floats stock, realizes that this rule has been powerless to check some of the worst speculation. It has issued new restrictions to check advertising by investment advisers suggesting that previous recommendations made a pile of money for their clients, or that they have an infallible formula for beating the market. Sample advice from an ad in the New York Times last week: "Because these low-priced stocks are known only to a few-because they have tremendous future promise-the risk involved has often been...
...newspaper. In the tidy way things are done in Salazar's Portugal, anonymous pamphlets appeared in Lisbon's cafes and stores announcing a demonstration the next day at the U.S. embassy. When U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick requested protection,, the police advised him that they would be powerless to stop the demonstrators, sent only a token force of 30 men. The government TV network dispatched a full set of TV cameras and crews...
Lame-Duck Governor Furcolo, who has little affection for Jack Kennedy, made it clear by the terseness of his announcement that he was depressed by having to name Smith, and felt powerless to oppose it. Actually, Kennedy had favored Congressman (and Old Harvard Roommate) Torbert Macdonald for the post, hopeful that Macdonald would be strong enough after the two-year interim appointment to make the race for reelection. But with Furcolo resisting a Macdonald appointment (Massachusetts pols were gossiping that the Governor was trying to hold Kennedy up for a big Administration job), Kennedy decided to settle for Ben Smith...
...prepared to be anything else." A depression-era Communist who broke with the party in the 1940s, Wright took the position: "In America there is no Negro problem but a white problem. Any time the white wants to change it, it will be solved. The Negro is powerless...