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With two minutes left before intermission, Grassby stole the ball from MIT fullback Brad Morrison in front of the Engineer goal, dribbled past another player, and chipped the ball past the defenseless goalie for Harvard's second tally...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Varsity Booters Devastate Engineers; Offense Nets Season-High in 7-1 Rout | 11/13/1975 | See Source »

...them back to willing sexuality. It is always other people who are being emotionally castrated. When the main character of a story is Michaels, fully grown and easily identified, the author is too embarrassed to say what he says about himself, aged ten, and his immigrant mother: "We were defenseless people...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: Empty Victories | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

...Without the knowledge of New York City officials, the scientists threw containers of a simulated poison on the tracks of two subway lines. Passing trains spread the harmless substance along more than two miles of track within minutes, leading the scientists to conclude that the system was defenseless against that kind of attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: Of Dart Guns and Poisons | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...second Harvard goal came with 52 seconds remaining in the stanza, as Dagidgian, hanging on the left corner of the crease, tipped the puck over defenseless netminder Dave Chrastina, Jim McMahon, hovering on the side of the crease, assisted on the play...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, | Title: Icemen Storm Back to Upend Big Red | 3/8/1975 | See Source »

...Beck says that a psychiatric profile describes the killer as "a jackal ... a loner, some guy who probably lives like a hermit and only creeps out of his hole to commit these horrible crimes." The police also say that he could be a homosexual. The killer preys on defenseless men of small stature in their 40s or 50s, knocks them unconscious with blows to the head and slits their throats with a large sharp hunting knife. Then, before fleeing, he usually removes his victim's shoes and neatly arranges them at the feet of the body. The Slasher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Skid Row Slasher | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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