Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...green, The Commonweal's editors assured their readers that they did not favor the Loyalist cause, which, they said, has ''permitted the murder of priests, nuns and lay people" and has allied itself with Soviet Russia. But they denounced Spanish Rightists for: 1) bombing defenseless civilians in spite of "protests from the Holy Father," 2) uttering "totalitarian views very similar to those which have been condemned by the Church in other countries," 3) allying themselves with the Fascist and Nazi nations. The Commonweal urged Catholics to avoid stirring up hate and violent partisanship...
Grey Owl wanted to ask the children of Britain: "Will you promise never to take advantage of the weakness of another human being or animal? Never take the life of a weak and defenseless animal for your own amusement? Never join in a chase where foxes, stags, otters or hares are driven for miles & miles by crowds of dogs and men-and sometimes, I am afraid, by women and children? Is this fair play? Is this sport...
...Kaiser's greatest flying aces and successor to the late great von Richthofen as commander of his famed squadron, once engaged in combat a Danish airman who was fighting for the French. "My machine-gun jammed," the Dane related afterward, "and when Göring saw I was defenseless he flew up alongside, waved a salute, and then soared away...
Three self-styled "defenseless women" were in the house at the time, chaperoning a little girl, about six years old, who indignantly denied perpetrating the crime. Police advanced the theory that the criminal was the type accustomed to lurking around open windows, taking what ever booty he could...
...Perhaps we foresee a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, will rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing will be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless-all will be lost or wrecked, or utterly destroyed." Having gone so far he promptly went further...