Word: defenseless
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This will go down as The Night The Freshman Went Wild. Five goals by four different first year players highlighted a come-form-behind 7-6 triumph for the Harvard hockey team over a defenseless squad from the University of New Hampshire last night at Durham...
Kaplan attacked mercilessly and beat the seemingly defenseless Morkawa in less than a minute...
Even more important, it would protect illegal immigrants from exploitation by making them legal. As of now, illegal aliens form a cheap, defenseless pool of workers, unprotected by American labor laws. As Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall has written, "Undocumented workers are subject to blackmail of every conceivable sort. If they complain to their employers about their paltry wages and their unsafe working conditions, they run the risk of being turned in by those owners to the INS." Almost slaves now, these people would gain, from Carter's proposal, the rights of American workers...
...movie's ideological position soon becomes clear. To Goretta, null rejection of the defenseless Pomme exemplifies the way the rich exploit the working class. But, unlike so many recent ideologically minded films, The Lacemaker never sacrifices the integrity of its characters to its political message. Rather than turn Francois into a snotty villain and Pomme into a peasant saint, Goretta, an eyenhanded Swiss, attacks the system that victimizes them both. The movie's title, with its allusion to 17th century genre paintings, suggests the delicacy of Gor-etta's style...
Youthful criminals prey on the most defenseless victims. The very young, the old, the lame, sick and blind are slugged, slashed and shot. They have retreated with broken limbs and emotional scars behind triple-locked doors. Many never venture out at night; some do not even risk the streets during the day. In confinement, their anguish is not heard. Often poor and not well educated, they do not know where to turn or how to complain...