Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watch the clattering down of the British Empire, with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. . . . Many have defended Britain against her foes. None can defend her against herself. We must face the evils that are coming upon us and that we are powerless to avert. We must not . . . exclude any expedient that may help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least let us not add-by shameful flight, by a premature, hurried scuttle-at least let us not add to the pangs...
...G.I.s took their troubles to the Veterans Administration, and were told that VA was powerless to help. Last week, however, Smith's President Herbert Davis finished a study of the will and made a manly decision with which the trustees agreed. Said he: the will declares that the leading object of the college shall be the education of young women. "A 'leading object' implies the existence of ... subordinate objects." On that ground, he decided, it was in his power to grant degrees to such subordinate objects...
Again, the Labor Government, which is powerless against the unions whence spring its votes, failed to implement its pleas for greater production with hard measures to achieve them. The White Paper inveighed against "restrictive practices" by both labor and capital. It urged more output per worker. But the truth was that the British worker was not working very hard, and neither the British capitalist nor the Government was taking measures likely to supply either the incentive or the compulsion for greater effort. Nearly all British industries, for example, still worked only one shift, because workers were reluctant to change their...
...Soul. Those principles add up to no comfortable, carpet-slipper religion. One of Founder MacLeod's favorite quotations is from Dostoevsky: Love in practice is a harsh and terrible thing compared with love in dreams. MacLeod says: "Our present tragedy, with 'one world dying and the other powerless to be born,' is that the church is too ethereal in its instructions, and the world is too material in its constructions. Jesus Christ...
...year ago this speech would have landed Narain himself in jail. Now the British are powerless to stop his rabble-rousing without the consent of the Congress Ministry of the United Provinces. The very fact that Narain remains free to speak as he does underscores the fact that the British are virtually throwing themselves out of India...