Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly he was gone again. Two Chinese diplomats had loaded him onto a hospital stretcher and carried him to the Chinese mission, where police were powerless to enter. The Dutch Foreign Ministry immediately protested the kidnaping, but got only silence from Charge d'Affaires Li En-chiu. After two days, the protests gave way to an ultimatum that the Chinese release their prisoner. Too late. "I am afraid I cannot help you," Li declared. "Unfortunately, Mr. Hsu died in my office...
Suddenly the steep plummeting dive changed to a semblance of flight. Under control of Veteran NASA Test Pilot Milton Thompson, the experimental M2-F2 "lifting body" demonstrated an uncanny ability to maneuver. Wingless and powerless, the 21-ton, 22-ft.-long craft swung through two 90° turns as it dropped through its rapid descent. At the last moment it lifted its nose, lowered its tricycle landing gear and streaked to a spectacular 200-m.p.h. landing on the flatbed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base. By successfully executing its unusual 217-second flight, the M2-F2 pointed...
...will have to complete a series of increasingly ambitious experimental flights. In the future, a version of the M2-F2 will be equipped with an X-15 rocket plane engine and sent to an altitude of 80,000 ft. at a speed of 1,200 m.p.h. before starting its powerless descent. As more funds become available, a piloted lifting body with a heat shield will be launched from Cape Kennedy atop a Titan rocket. It will make a suborbital flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, then re-enter the atmosphere for a controlled landing at Edwards Air Force...
...that "the charges against the defendant are false," or that the defendant will not get a fair trial. If people "are being prosecuted on baseless charges solely because of their race, then there has been an outrageous denial of their federal rights, and the federal courts are far from powerless to redress the wrongs done to them...
...whatsoever to share the responsibility" for the impact on the criminal process. "In some unknown number of cases the court's rule will return a killer, a rapist or other criminal to the streets to repeat his crime whenever it pleases him." Seeing the police as now practically powerless, White worried about citizens who can "only engage in violent self-help with guns, knives and the help of their neighbors similarly inclined...