Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playing messiah to everyone, including the extreme left. When Bosch was ousted by the Dominican army in 1963 and both men took asylum in Puerto Rico, the split grew wider. After the April civil war erupted, Miolán publicly called for intervention to "prevent the genocide of the defenseless population of our capital," and later he launched an anti-Bosch whisper campaign throughout the country...
...PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands, as a disarming but determined prostitute, claws and purrs her way into the once serene life of a defenseless book clerk (Alan Alda...
...PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands, as a prostitute with paws of s claws and purrs her way into the once-serene life of a self-protective but defenseless book clerk (Alan Alda...
...Negro sitting together in the same car. Such scenes, he said, are common in Lowndes County, where white people drive home their Negro maids, handymen and cooks. "If that's grounds for murder, blood can flow in Lowndes County." The Klan, he said, had killed a defenseless woman. "Is that the kind of bravery we fought for? I'd say not." Gantt concluded by invoking the name of Alabama's Governor, who is all but worshiped in Lowndes County-"one of the greatest segregationists, George Corley Wallace. He said this is a cowardly act that should...
...banks would have to hire all the American women between 21 and 45. If all the computers went on the blink, the country would be practically paralyzed: plants would shut down, finances would be thrown into chaos, most telephones would go dead, and the skies would be left virtually defenseless against enemy attack...