Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantastic Dictator, among other things granted himself by decree a divorce he had been vainly trying to get for years. The Dictator of Fiume even issued a proclamation "declaring war on Italy," but delighted Italians knew it was his way of helping Rome tell President Wilson they were "powerless" to control this great Italian patriot. Eventually D'Annunzio, after an Italian warship had duly popped a few projectiles into Fiume, surrendered it to his native country and strutted home to be created a Prince, almost suffocated with adulation...
...cardinal. But Archbishop Hinsley, soon after his appointment to succeed the late Francis Cardinal Bourne in 1935, embarrassed the Church by his statements during the Italo-Ethiopian war. Replying energetically to the anti-Italian attacks of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Westminster announced that the Pope was powerless to intervene in the war because he was "a helpless old man." For this, Archbishop Hinsley, long-jawed Yorkshireman, was passed over when on two occasions the Pope raised other prelates to the purple...
Even before the final whistle blew the goal posts began to totter and soon yielded under the pressure of a growing throng of rooters. The officials were powerless to stem the tide...
...with cries into the water. After many hours the Nantucketers succeeded in shooting lines over the vessel, but the men on board were too frozen to pull the attached hawser. More dreary hours passed, while one after another of the shipwrecked men perished. The crowds on shore, eager but powerless to help, were moved by the grim fact that they stood within speaking distance of death...
...awarded $40 to $90 a month as compensation. In California such income sets them apart from the horde of indigents and makes them ineligible for free medical care. Unable to pay for both living and medical expenses, the 139 crippled nurses asked a Los Angeles grand jury for help. Powerless to do anything more concrete, the grand jury amplified and echoed the appeal in hopes of getting California or Federal dollars rolling toward the cripples' wheelchairs...