Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beau Jack, 25, twice the world's lightweight champion, was game. He braced himself on his good leg, tried to slug it out. The second time he went down, he stayed there, helpless. The referee, and Tony's manager (see cut), helped Beau from the ring, his face clearly showing his agony. Had the promoters, anxious to cash in on a good thing, killed the golden goose? Oh, no, said one doctor; Beau could be patched up once more, in "ten months to a year, if no complications develop...
...chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just as he is staggering out of a bar, still wearing last night's tuxedo-descends his divorced American wife Yvonne, in a last desperate effort to remake their marriage...
...also present at the villa, en route to Loyalist Spain, is the ex-consul's halfbrother, Hugh, a leftwing, guitar-playing rover who has been in love with Yvonne for years. By nightfall of the same day, Hugh and Yvorme have been drawn together-and the helpless consul is lying dead in a ravine, shot by a gang of Mexican semi-fascist desperadoes who mistake him for his leftist halfbrother...
...Watch and Ward in its fight against the spread of obscenity. Happy to take up the scent and go bugling off after a book like "Strange Fruit," or inflexible in their command that a singer stand ramrod stiff during a rendition of "A Huggin' an' A Chalkin'," they remain helpless while the newspapers go into a detailed analysis of the intricacies of an assault. However loud the moral societies complain about the quality of the Boston newspapers, they find that the city editors are too powerful for them, quoting freedom of the press as their license to circulate cheesecake instead...
...Arenas. Against such tactics, the ill-organized Christian Democrats (who believe in unions but not in political strikes) are helpless. They complain: "Every victory of ours must be .fought twice, first in the political, then in the economic arena...