Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard laxwomen put on on impressive show for their fans yesterday afternoon, once again demonstrating their powerful offensive potential as they demolished the defenseless Bowdoin team, 15-1, in the season's home opener...
...silver. Heading up the Bahama Channel toward Florida, it sailed into a hurricane that sank several of the ships in its fleet. The Concepción nearly capsized, but a desperate crew righted her by chopping off chunks of mast and rigging. Her gunpowder soaked, the ship was defenseless against pirates, so the admiral in command veered south for Puerto Rico, hoping to stash the treasure there until the Concepción could be repaired and restocked...
...Charlie and Mortimer were, after all, only puppets. If the world were a wholly rational place, their claims on it would be small. But the fact is they do make claims, and strong ones. Kermit, rueful and dithered frees a part of our own natures so absurd and defenseless that we would never let a human actor hold it in his hands. This freedom is wonderful, but there is a price What these puppets mean to the millions of people who have watched them is al most embarrassing to express, because the feeling they evoke is nothing less than love...
...stood staring until the two men caught up. Then they stood and stared. I talked to them. They had no food, no dry clothes, no tent and only wet down sleeping bags which sap heat from cold bodies. They were defenseless, and worse, they were succumbing. I didn't think I could cross the stream alone even though it looked as though Adrian had. I wondered if I shouldn't set up the tent, get in the sleeping bag and bite through the plastic bag at my belt to get crackers and chocolate and try to save...
...best songs on Dylan's undervalued Street-Legal are heartbroken ballads, wounded, surly and defenseless by turns. Dylan delivers them in typically left-field fashion, backed by three women singers as he lets the songs rip like some Bleecker Street parody of a Vegas lounge lizard. In concert, with billowing shirt, plunging neckline and a crooner's microphone calisthenics, Dylan works his way through his standard repertory and sometimes looks as if he is auditioning for The Gong Show...