Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humane response, however, is no fun. I suggest the alternative approach of sadistically playing with their minds. Their small, defenseless minds...
...tenant is presumed by them to be defenseless and right," Natale said. "And the owner is presumed to be wealthy and mean. We are assumed to be the bad guys...
...Defenseless under the night...
...still remember that sunny September day, the whizzing sound of German planes strafing defenseless refugees, exploding bombs, the stench of burning and dead horses at the roadside. I thought the heavens had fallen in on me. Relations between Lithuania and Poland were not very good, and we were held up at the border, adding to our sense of alarm and fear. We were convinced that we would return home soon, that a British-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the overwhelming forces of the enemy. Not for a moment did I think I would...
...encountered the corpses of horses everywhere. Poor horses, big defenseless animals that don't know how to hide. They stand motionless, waiting for death. It was always the corpses of horses -- black, bay, pied, chestnut -- lying upside down with the legs pointing into the air, their hooves admonishing the world. It was as if it were a war not between people but between horses, as if they were the only victims of the strife...