Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first part of Lament for Four Virgins is a tongue-in-cheek report of what happens when one defenseless minister is besieged by four determined virgins, backed up by four determined mothers. Herself the daughter of a Southern Episcopal minister, Novelist Tucker knows the social labyrinths of the South inside out, and better still, how to get them down on paper. She sketches some neat satiric passages on the relations between clergymen and vestrymen, and plots the maneuvers of her matrons with the skill of an experienced admiral arranging a fleet for battle. None of Novelist Tucker's girls...
...three gold crowns of the Swedish royal air force lumbered above the Baltic early one morning this week in search of a sister plane that had been missing for four days. Cruising east, some 60 miles off the coast of Estonia and no miles from the Swedish coast, the defenseless Catalina was ambushed.* Two Russian MIG-15 jets bansheed down and made seven passes at the Catalina, one of them blasting away with its 20-mm. cannon. Hit several times, the Swedish plane got off a message to its home base: it had been crippled but would try for home...
...Protests. The news explained beyond much doubt what had happened to the first missing plane, an equally defenseless transport used as a "flying classroom" for Swedish air force radio operators, and to its complement of eight. The Baltic from Finland to Danzig was aswim with Soviet warships and submarines, the sky was thick with Russian jets; all were engaged in sea and air maneuvers...
Yale men need no yonger pad the streets of defenseless, helpless prey to any passing mugger...
...free press and elections Guevara needs, is not enough for Guevara, who preaches: "We have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers indefensos, "the defenseless ones." They call him "the saint." The indefensos took it as a good omen that Guevara's electoral triumph last week occurred on the day he became 40, minimum age to run for the presidency in next June's election...