Word: defenselessness
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...being disrespectful though it would be as accurate, but in the case of Spain it is more serious to use such flippancy about a government for which many are dying in its defense. It is bad enough that the world democracies permit Dictators Mussolini and Hitler to attack a defenseless Republican and liberal government-but for a great publication such as TIME to stoop to sly innuendos is inexcusable...
...safeguarded is liberty in a social organization which requires the protection of law against the evils which menace the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the people. . . . The exploitation of a class of workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well-being but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community. What these workers lose in wages the taxpayers are called upon to pay. The bare cost of living must...
...movies come in for another does of ridicule, but the show is by no means squeezed into the narrow scope of merely laughing at the great, defenseless, adolescent industry. There is a Ramone Ramon (pronounced Ramone Ramone, John C. Develin, '38), who is instrumental in a complete collegiate flop along the lines of the complete collegiate flops with which Hollywood periodically inflicts us. There is also a Llewellyn Flushingale, producer (Benjamin F. Dillingham, '39), who is as poetically illiterate, as pompously ignorant, and as, madly lavish, as movie producers are commonly known to be. But this is only a beginning...
...South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop the memoria issue because the military career of General Sherman "is a history of rapine, carnage, destruction and murder waged principally against defenseless women and little children. . . ." At Atlanta, the Georgia Senate considered a similar resolution while the House argued a proposal to approve the stamp only if the Government at this late date admit and pay for the damage Sherman's army did in Georgia...
...bombs dropped by the trimotored Insurgent planes almost defies description. Eight and ten story buildings are partly or wholly leveled. So heavy are these messengers of death that the bombing planes tip to one side and wobble a little as they are released. The city is singularly helpless and defenseless against attacks from the air because the Government's anti-aircraft armament is practically useless. About a dozen machine guns and one-pounders, handled by woefully in expert militiamen, have not brought down a single enemy plane so far, all the claims in Government communiques notwithstanding...