Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loyola University of Chicago, who conducted the study, is to attract the attention of possible rescuers or to try to flee. Block predicts that if too many citizens take up arms, criminals will respond by adding to their own weaponry or by selecting more vulnerable victims, such as defenseless older women...
Writer Malcolm Muggeridge, who worked with Svetlana on a BBC film about her life, called her return hazardous. She has taken "a very big chance" and will be "quite defenseless," he said. "I feel deeply sorry for her." Most shocked was Svetlana's former husband and Olga's father, U.S. Architect William Wesley Peters, 72, whom she married in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1970 and divorced in 1973. He is extremely worried about Olga's future. "Her mother was lonely and distraught. She may have left for the U.S.S.R. impulsively, or possibly under constraint," he said...
...week of whether boxing should be allowed at all. British researchers have called for the abolition of the sport. In 1983 the American Medical Association carried an article in its journal stating that "the principal purpose of a boxing match is for one opponent to render the other injured, defenseless, incapacitated, unconscious . . . Boxing, as a throwback to uncivilized man, should not be sanctioned by any civilized society...
...themselves, each of these tales of sorrow might make an interesting topic for a play. Yet the unlikely combination of the three--clumsily intertwined with a less than subtle statement decrying industrial exploitation of the defenseless Indians--causes Angels Fall to lose the impact of its message. By the second act, these self-professed disinterested individuals have become interested enough in one another to begin lecturing them. When Father Dougherty tells the cast, "I think I will preach a sermon tonight," the audiences' worst fears are confirmed...
...pattern of "discriminatory enforcement." New York's Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo claimed that his state has "the most comprehensive program in the nation to reduce acid rain, but 90% of the acid rain killing our lakes originates in other states. The Administration is leaving us all but defenseless." As for Maine's Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan, he angrily accused the Administration of "saying, in effect, it's O.K. to dump your garbage on your neighbor's lawn...