Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve JV players shared in the scoring against the defenseless Engineers. Bob Grundeman led the team with 10, followed closely by Captain Arnie Singell and Chuck Wolle, 9, and Bob Repetto, Roger Rawdan, and Jack Foker...
...year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist since 1952, has apparently been trained to write this...
...like Nationality, or Democracy, or Equality, or Humanity, or Progress . . . [were] modern versions of ancient religions which demanded human sacrifice . . . The dogmas of such religions declare that mere invocation of certain formulae, certain symbols, render what would normally be regarded as crimes or lunacies-murder, torture, the humiliation of defenseless human bodies-not only permissible but often laudable...
America is far from defenseless from any Red aggression, Griswold said. "We have well conceived and substatial methods to protects us that have functioned successfully for many years...
This year's melodrama concerns the efforts of two villans to rest the ownership of the Walker Valley, Pine Bush & Pacific Railroad from a defenseless, aged widow. She, inevitably, has a beautiful daughter who, of course, figures in the dastards' ultimate goal. They do not succeed, however, thanks to the "Courage and Valor in all Things but One" (Drink) of one Truman Pendennis. Not even poor Truman ever seems really doubtful about the happy outcome, and all is well...