Word: defenselessness
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...Venerable Robert Henry Charles, 71, Archdeacon of Westminster, erudite translator of the Ethiopia Book of Jubilees: "To find one's pleasure in a sport which consists of torturing and killing a defenseless animal bespeaks at best a thoughtless person whose outlook on life is immeasurably lower than that of the wolf or the tiger...
...wrote facilely on a strange variety of subjects: The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language, Defenseless America, Dynamite Stories, The Rise of An American Inventor (his autobiography...
...Australia, came one Palmer Kent, composer, whom listeners judged-either a lucky fellow or a great liar. He had been on a walking tour in the New Hebrides, where head-hunting cannibals still abound, when a band of blackamoors, nearly nude save for weapons, surrounded him with melting eyes. Defenseless, he instinctively began to wriggle his toes, his feet, his ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, to fling his whole body about in the loose gyrations of the Charleston. So enchanted were the cannibals, he said, that they took lessons, gave him presents instead of eating...
...Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless against the conquering Southern "Nationalist" or "Cantonese...
Senator David A. Reed read and grew hot. He arose in the Senate with fire on his tongue: "The poison that taints the pen that writes such editorials as that, demanding the highest and most meticulous virtue from every public man, but knifing defenseless men behind their backs on false charges, where they have no opportunity to reply, is absolutely indefensible...