Word: defenselessness
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...only to flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim of the same mechanism. Crammed with a thousand facts, equipped with test tube and tuning fork, Lewis's laboratory does not imagine the chemical of human kindness. The defenseless specimen wallows blandly in 100% Americanism, while the experimenter stands off and sneers, smacking his lips, rubbing his hands, gloating wickedly...
...zebra, came in turns to drink. Also the rare okapi. They respect and stand aside for the conceited and preening ostrich of the deadly kick. Zebra snap and fight among themselves continuously. Giraffes, "the creatures God forgot," wander about nervously nibbling at the trees too timid even to drink. Defenseless against his fatal leap, they are the favorite food of Simba, the lion...
Last week British airmen zoomed over the Afric Sudan, raining down bombs upon maddened, defenseless, uncomprehending herds of cattle. Boom! Above the basso of the bombs blood spurted fortissimo. Boom! Mangled flesh and splintered bones crescendoed high. BOOM...
...certain courage. Parents who take their children to the zoo will be unconscionably delinquent if they do not take them to Simba, Parents will themselves be surprised, delighted, often amazed.- Simba is the native term for lion. The native hunt for this king of beasts in which black men, defenseless save for shield and spear, commit a bloody regicide serves as a gruelling climax. The Drums of Love. Lovers long ago defeated in their love have brightened many a story with golden shadows of a picturesque despair. Now, under a title which is highly absurd and which has reference...
...industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot or clubbed any who refused to join and pay "dues...