Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WOMEN, we invaded a man's world with a tough ivied tradition. And we came defenseless, lacking a sure tradition of our own. We were uncertain of what it meant to be a woman and in revolt against familiar ideals, we claimed Harvard life as our own. And this was traitorous, for it made us symbolic...
There are differences, of course. In 1954 there was an impotent and virtually defenseless government in Saigon; today the South Vietnamese government has 1.1 million men under arms. In 1954 the U.S. repudiated the Geneva agreements as a "disaster" that might "lead to the loss of Southeast Asia." Today Washington is vitally interested in seeing that more or less the same terms can be made to work...
...George McGovern declared: "Except for Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jewish people, the American bombardment of defenseless peasants in Indochina is the most barbaric act of modern times." Last week he conjured up the Hitler analogy again. He accused President Nixon of being "at least indirectly" responsible for the invasion of the Democratic National Committee offices in Washington by five men last June (see story, page 20). McGovern later added that the incident was "the kind of thing you expect under a person like Hitler...
...Actually, both men are correct; Muskie has simply succumbed to paronophilia-the inordinate love of puns. Twice in New Hampshire he has assured audiences that the state cannot be taken for granite, and at the state capital he announced to a stunned reporter: "We just Concord the statehouse." At defenseless Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he counted the house and cracked to his audience: "I can see that things are Coeequal here...
Ignoring cries from the crowd, Ali refused to finish off his defenseless opponent. "Yes, I deliberately held up," explained Muhammad, who won a unanimous decision. "I don't believe in killing a man just to satisfy a crowd...