Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most frustrated man in Manhattan last week was the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold. His Congo command, having backed all the main antagonists into corners, now seemed to be in full charge in Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations...
After years as a defensive team, the varsity showed signs of becoming a hit-'em longer-and-harder outfit against Columbia. Fullbacks Sandy Cortesi and Tim Mor-had trouble clearing the ball, and developed a new weakness--powerless kicking. But they both have the speed to recover after a mistake...
Faculty members generally support the conclusion that the United Nations is powerless to resolve the East-West conflict. However, Hans J. Morgenthau, visiting professor of Government, pointed out the ability of the organization to act effectively in areas at the margin of the conflict, as it did during the Mid-East crisis...
...civilization that was greater, for nearly two thousand years, than anything before it, was almost spent by the first millennium B.C. The empire was shattered. The legacy of cultural greatness from the days of Ramses II was running out. Egypt was slowly overcome by an ennui that made her powerless to stop the conquering hordes of Libyans, Ethiopians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, who swept into the Nile Valley like a rampaging flood. But foreign domination for a time pumped new vigor into Egypt's tired blood. Sculptors gradually began to escape from the sterility of pyramid sculpture...
...Lhasa. Even with the present poor communications, Chinese settlers are already being moved in to take over Tibetan lands, and Tibetans are shipped away to points unknown to change the racial complexion of the people. But other thousands have fled into the mountains, where Chinese planes last week were powerless to strafe them out. Said one Tibetan traveler: "The Chinese will have to demolish our mountains to be free...