Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat on his back with a right to the jaw. The conclusion drawn from the first nine rounds--that Robinson could not hurt the champion--is proved wrong in an astonishing second. Every spectator is up on his feet, screaming. Turpin is up again, caught against the ropes, defenseless, sagging, victim of a blitzkrieg. The punches keep coming and coming and still he stays up, kept up, perhaps by the blows themselves, which knock him back against the ropes. The standee with the bet is transformed horribly. His voice is raw with excitement, shouting for the kill...
...flat on his back with a right to the jaw. The conclusion drawn from the first nine rounds--that Robinson could not hurt the champion--is proved wrong in an astonishing second. Every spectator is up on his feet, screaming. Turpin is up again, caught against the ropes, defenseless, sagging, victim of a blitzkrieg. The punches keep coming and coming and still he stays up, kept up, perhaps by the blows themselves, which knock him back against the ropes. The standee with the bet is transformed horribly. His voice is raw with excitement, shouting for the kill...
...nation lies defenseless, a Gulliver in Lilliput with Harry Truman as the second most Lilliputian of them all and Johnson a midget among them. We have only four combat airplanes, two tanks (one being Johnson himself), five six-star generals and a converted armored yawl, once the property of Josephus Daniels...
...past two years, the radio-equipped buses and streetcars of Washington's Capital Transit Co. have resounded with syrupy popular music and insistent commercials. Some of the defenseless passengers objected strongly enough to protest to the Public Utilities Commission. Defeated there, they went to court. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed unanimously with the protesting passengers, ruled that they have a constitutional right not to listen while they ride...
...Battista could not muster. He approached the most tender passages in a hard-boiled manner: although technically facile, he seemed suspicious of both sensitivity and real clarity. Thus the episodic character of the music, far from being disguised, was exaggerated to a degree which left the piece all but defenseless. It never had much armor anyhow--which is not surprising, considering that Chopin was only nineteen when he wrote...