Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call in Amnesty International because the Harvard field hockey team is on a sadistic splurge, torturing defenseless opponents with barbarous cruelty...
...outraged by the criticism heaped on Israel for its advance into Lebanon [Aug. 23]. Regrettably, civilians have been killed in this tragic war, but the P.L.O. is equally responsible. Its members in a cowardly and calculating way situated themselves in the middle of a large and defenseless civilian population. The P.L.O.'s crimes against innocent people, both Lebanese and Israeli, have been conveniently ignored or forgotten. It is the media's presentation of the war in Lebanon, rather than the war itself, that has clouded Israel's image in the world's eyes...
...Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival gang, and 89 guests are parboiled. "Miraculously, the Congressmen and the judges came through the fire unharmed...
...That junk on television," Scott I fumed. "Sure, the good guys usually win. But that's not what grabs the audience. It's what the bad guys do. Kids learn how to mug the defenseless. How to use guns and knives. How to get high on alcohol and drugs. That's what they remember...
Because the world is like a "very had neighborhood at 3 o'clock in the morning," the United States must continue to arm itself so that it does not become a "defenseless old lady." Liddy said in his 90-minute speech...