Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many critics. Earlier this month several leaders of the legal community assembled in the Cash Room of the Treasury Department to enter their pleas before the quadrennial salary commission. Some of the testimony was melodramatic. Said Federal District Court Judge Charles Joiner: "I speak to you of naked and defenseless men and women." Many jurists, added Circuit Court Judge Irving Kaufman, will be reduced to writing letters asking "how they might tell their children that they cannot afford to send them to college." Other spokesmen have been somewhat more restrained. "We ask judges to be purer than Caesar...
...that the pleasures of romance are always messy and impermanent. In time, she attempts suicide by overdosing on pills, whereupon the psychiatrist behaves rather badly. He delays his response to her call for help and then commits what the investigating policeman (Harvey Keitel) calls "ravishment" on her drugged and defenseless person...
...rest of the day belonged to the Crimson, both the first-stringers and the reserves, as they slid the ball up the slippery field and gunned it in on the defenseless Remsen...
...orange combined a gang of talented backs and a swarming defense to annihilate a defenseless Lowell House contingent, 28-0, yesterday in House Football action...
...deeply concerned about the unwarranted and vicious invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union and occupation by them of this innocent and defenseless country," the president told the assembled dignitaries and press corps...