Word: defencelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horse & Buggy Practice. So rapid has been the scientific progress of medicine that a great number of physicians are practicing "horse and buggy" medicine according to the rules of the past generation at the expense of "the defenceless sick." Dr. Bernheim's remedy: medical licenses should be granted not for life but for periods of five years. This would allow young graduates a five-year trial period in which to find themselves, would make it necessary for specialists to secure separate licenses to work in their chosen fields. Since they would have to take periodical examinations, doctors would find...
...sticky July day last year this letter arrived at Cavalcade's Fleet Street office from Hove, Sussex: Wherever the Roman Catholic Church was founded, its behaviour during the last few years has been no recommendation, for they evidently show their Christianity by massacre and slaughter both of defenceless mothers, and their own people, as seen in Abyssinia, Ireland and Spain. I would rather be a Moslem...
Dreams, nightmares, interminable abysses of utter blankness--these toyed with his defenceless mind. Unconscious, he moved about during the hours of the night. He ran down black alleys, he leapt over cliffs and fell through the air like a feather; he walked into a store with a big glass window and bought an automobile; a girl with a flopping white hat chased him up a flight of stairs (he remembered thinking that he had seen her face before. In Boston?): he saw beer cans dropping from the ceiling. Dawn approached, and his blankets and sheets lay messed...
...poor defenceless animals...
...know that the threat of starvation came, at the moment, not from the Germans-but from the British Navy! . . . Mr. Whitlock was working earnestly, in co-operation with the German authorities and a Belgian committee, to rescue starving Belgium from the British blockade." In 1915 a book called Defenceless America, by the brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, machine-gun inventor, raised goosebumps on thousands of U. S. necks. It was made into a cinema called The Battle Cry of Peace...