Word: defenseless
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...broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music and shouting the merits of their beer, cough drops, cigarettes, chewing gum and automobiles at defenseless travelers...
Most of the Crimson players individually played their top games so far of the season against the champions. Goalie Whoop Batachelder was busy all afternoon blocking difficult Connecticut shots. The penalty kick that got by him was hardly his fault; in soccer the goalie is almost defenseless against a direct penalty kick...
Influenced by certain demands of one Joseph Goldstein ... I seek the suppression of Alice in Wonderland because it ridicules the plight of the poor Mock Turtle, a practically defenseless minority...
...reading matter, Goldstein charged, the board is defeating its own purpose of instilling in the children tolerance and "a love of neighbor and mankind." Since the schools are supported by Christians and Jews alike, he argued, the board's approval of such books is "an illegal, arbitrary and defenseless exercise of power...
Into the Opposition. Some Congressmen were quick to say they would not buy labor's dream. Louisiana Democrat Allen J. Ellender said that the President's bill would leave the nation defenseless against John L. Lewis. Faithful old New Dealer Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate labor committee, would try to hustle the bill on to the floor but there it would run into a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much...