Word: defenseless
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...with nuclear deterrence. Bush is more realistic: he thinks the feasibility of SDI has yet to be proved. He favors research but not early deployment. In his Chicago speech, Bush carefully stopped short of prejudging whether a full-scale SDI would make sense. While vowing not to leave America "defenseless" against ballistic missiles, he stressed less grandiose possibilities than a full-scale SDI, such as using its benefits to counter the threat of shorter-range ballistic weapons...
...editorial piece, Rowan wrote that he kept the gun so that he would not be defenseless, "naked to the druggies and crooks out there." Yet he ended up using it on some half-naked youth who was guilty of no more than trespassing and could have easily been dragged away, along with his female companion, by the cops...
Instead, the headlines will lament the fate of the hapless hero. Defenseless Mike, bewitched by his domineering wife and her baseball-star-seducing mother...
...police came in, they set off percussion grenades, terrorizing the "paralyzed, defenseless and sleeping people," said Krzystof Kozlowski, a senior Roman Catholic journalist in Krakow...
...innocence or helplessness stalked by danger produce responses that are largely involuntary and hence all but fail-safe: a reader's skin crawls, a moviegoer looks away from the screen or screams. One variation on this formula is its mirror opposite: an evil child is born into an unsuspecting, defenseless society. This situation crops up in folk literature, with tales of changelings or of sleeping women seduced and impregnated by incubi, and occasionally appears in popular entertainments like The Bad Seed and Rosemary's Baby. Not many serious writers have risked such a plot. It reeks of discredited superstitions...