Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid drill last week in which every warden at college was away is an example of what could happen. Unless every man knows his job and unless all duties are coordinated, Harvard is going to find itself helpless when the attack comes. Such conditions made for Pearl Harbor and the bungling of production under the O.P.M...
Design and operating experts thought the primary negligence was in not having aboard a trained crew that really knew the ship. Said Designer Yourkevitch sadly: "She was helpless, like a sick man, unable to fight to save herself...
...must not be fooled by propaganda to the effect that the German people have been temporarily "debased" by evil leaders, Williams stated. As an irrationalist society they can not be changed by a mere dose of democratic education. They must be made helpless and harmless, "preferably in a world union, but by decimation and captivity if necessary...
...Jade, this son's wife, went into the free West with students, while the people of the city, rich and poor alike, began to crowd past into the country. Sometimes Ling Tan "felt more sorry for the rich than the poor because the rich were so helpless and delicate and knew little of where to find food." But the peasants disguised their broad hats with branches, and stayed at their work. Ling Tan despised all those who made war; "it seemed to him that the greatest thing a man could do in these days was to live and keep...
...Wittkower and Major Rodger picked at random 52 soldiers who were helpless in the dark; some of them had proved it by wrecking cars. "Most of the men," said the investigators, "ate the ordinary Army food and therefore had plenty of vitamins in their diet." Thorough eye examinations were given to 42 of the men; only one had a physical eye defect that caused his night blindness...