Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literary and historic merit, members of the Harvard community bought an unprecedented number of copies. The Coop reported at the time that Fanny was selling "like mad." Not until their supplies were exhausted did local bookstores note that the Attorney General's office had suggested they would be "virtually defenseless" if the book were finally banned and criminal proceedings were brought against them for selling...
...paratroop drop, they raged on and on about imperialist intervention. "The white is untouchable," sneered Brazzaville Congo's foreign minister. "A white, especially if his name is Carlson, is worth thousands of blacks." Guinea's representative charged that white mercenaries had "massacred hundreds and hundreds of defenseless Congolese" without a murmur from the West, because "their skins were black like those assassinated in Mississippi...
Meanwhile, he continued, American trained pilots are bombing defenseless vilages, but the American people are "dumb enough" to believe that the U.S. is on a mission of mercy in the Congo...
...measures, which will take years to implement, are being criticized as too little too late. Said Arthur Calwell, leader of the Labor Opposition and longtime critic of the government's military policies: "It's taken the government 14 years to discover that Australia is defenseless...
...Malaparte gave him peculiar insight into the behavior of men who were far worse in deed than he ever was in thought. In Kaputt, he wrote: "The Nazi has no fear of the strong man, of the armed man who faces him with courage. The Nazi fears the defenseless, the weak and the sick...