Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen through, laid siege to her. Emmeline surrendered unconditionally. By the time Cecilia discovered what was going on, the harm was done. Markie, who knew better than to marry anybody, had broken Emmeline's heart by acting like the honest cad he was. If Emmeline had been less defenseless, less trusting, she might have got over it: but she was in the Ophelia tradition and took Ophelia...
...trade pacts with the Bolshevist murderers? . . . Will the League of Nations go on discussing questions of peace and disarmament with the representatives of a Government whose chief method of work is a bloody terror? . . . Open your eyes. Unite in a common protest against the tortures of 160,000,000 defenseless Russian people...
...declaration of the moratorium has meant sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk finished reading, North Carolina's Pou, senior House Democrat, declared: "Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the resolution on the table." A great cheer went up as the Democratic majority, party politics...
...capitalism at its best. Has he not become a benign old gentleman who gives dimes to caddies and whose birthday is a regular newspaper event? That he was once thought of as an industrial giant who ruthlessly demolished his competitors and as an ogre who preyed upon a defenseless public is now usually forgotten...
...safe-breaker might pare the skin off his finger-tips, so that his supersensitized bared flesh might the better feel the fumblers fall; to shock as the bull-fighter first uncovers the nerves of his audience by the wilful and barbaric shedding of blood and disemboweling of defenseless horses, so that the supersensitized public might the better sense the grace and agility of subsequent performance. Francies of real validity in childhood have been discontinued for the expediencies of adult life, but in some hidden corner of our mind may have reached an unearthly maturity of their own; and mythology, superstition...