Word: powerlessness
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...perhaps it's a measure of our frustration and self-hatred at being powerless to end the war, that last Friday night's audience at the Harvard Square Theatre, sitting there in their two-fifty seats and wasting away three or four useless hours, grabbed at the bait. A couple of the more astute even yelling out, "America is doing that in Vietnam!" during Nelson's specially effected massacre...
Anna Jones, the elected spokesman for the Concerned Citizens of Cambridge, said at the meeting, "The motions are in no way an answer to our demands. We will cooperate with the full knowledge that this committee is powerless...
...into effect a comprehensive European policy. In part, that is only due to a realistic recognition of the limits of U.S. influence. Kissinger, recalling early U.S. failures at trying to get Britain into the Common Market and create a joint defense system, is convinced that the U.S. is powerless to influence Europe in any way except by keeping its troops there at substantial levels...
...Lord of the Flies, Isla Vista is isolated, in spirit as well as in fact. People over 30 are practically nonexistent. Bus service to Santa Barbara is inconvenient and irregular. Since most of the residents are too young to vote, inexperienced in politics or both, I.V. is a powerless political backwater. It long had governmental services to match: one stop light for 6,000 cars, no public parks, inadequate street lighting, few sidewalks, no hospital, out-of-touch police...
...that America will find it difficult to reconcile the use of tactical atomic weapons with its present international standing. Only Russia, of course, has the power to stop them, although the U. S. holds a nuclear Sword of Damocles over even the Russians' heads; the other nations are virtually powerless to resist; And there is always the likelihood of sustained international outcry, although the U. S. has not often been swayed by moral arguments...