Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...giant, apparently biped, Twinkie on-the-run, “not to worry, there’s more than enough sweetness to go around.” The next, it is taking the side of a foul-mouthed, sociopathic nutritional supplement in its countertop brawl with a defenseless orange (whom it eventually beats off the edge and into the garbage pail where it is leered at by a “perverted-looking chicken carcass?...
...response of President Bush to all this has been surreal. Public support for his policies is dwindling; his own party is abandoning him; he seems naked, defenseless in the public square. Yet he has spent most of the past few weeks traveling the country, selling the vaporous "policies" he proposed in his State of the Union address. As the Dubai debate went nuclear, Bush was off trying to convince people that he was serious about developing alternative energy sources. (He isn't, really. His proposed budget increases for such projects run in the millions; a single tax break...
...rival when it comes to projecting its military, economic and cultural power around the world. But we are practically defenseless at home. In 2002 alone, more than 400 million people, 122 million cars, 11 million trucks, 2.4 million rail freight cars, approximately 8 million maritime containers and 56,596 vessels entered the U.S. at more than 3,700 terminals and 301 ports of entry. In general, frontline agents have only a matter of seconds to make a go/no-go decision on whether to allow entry: 30 seconds for people and one minute for vehicles. And then there...
...know what to do with your hands. If conversation stalls, you can’t raise your drink contemplatively to your lips—no, you have to stand there and look stupid. You’re missing the universal prop, the plastic cup, and you’re defenseless...
...well-executed chip shot at about the goalie’s shoulder level, basically impossible to save.” But the lead would be short-lived. Columbia responded on a Kim Branich blast off a penalty corner, which Ashley McMasters then tipped and redirected past a defenseless Connolly at 24:46. Despite allowing the goal, however, the Crimson defended penalty corners very well as the Lions held a 5-4 advantage in the game. “An important part of defending a penalty corner is to stay calm and focused,” junior back Jen DeAngelis said...