Word: defenselessness
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Sudan's Arab Janjaweed, the country's government-backed militiamen, have declared war on the black Africans of Sudan [July 5] and begun a virtual genocide against those defenseless people. Didn't the nations of the world say "Never again" after the Holocaust of the 1940s, the starvation of Biafrans in the '60s, the slaughter of Cambodians in the '70s and the wanton butchery in Rwanda in 1994? What does it take for the world to act? The U.N. is ineffectual, the European Union is asleep and Arab nations live in denial. If we Americans continue to allow genocide...
When we think of our children or grandchildren, the ghost haunting the attics of our minds is their vulnerability. They are essentially defenseless. And in the late watches of the night, we can't help succumbing to clammy unease...
...defenseless undergarment, alas, could not speak up for itself. The league said, however, that it had concerns about the tone of the show, and Timberlake's song, that MTV never addressed. "MTV did not live up to their end of the deal," said NFL executive vice president Joe Browne. "They told us, 'We'll address your concerns,' and then things never changed." But MTV Networks chairman and CEO Tom Freston said the league and the networks together reviewed the songs, costumes and choreography. He noted that MTV also produced the halftime show three years ago. "If you go back...
...definitive moment of Noam Chomsky’s life came when he was only six years old. One day after class, one of Chomsky’s classmates threatened to beat up a defenseless fat kid in the schoolyard with the help of his older brother. Chomsky describes his reaction to the scene in the documentary Manufacturing Consent: “I remember going up to stand next to him. I did for a while, but then I got scared and went away. I was very much ashamed of it afterwards. I felt—I’ll never...
...Wells’ original “War of the Worlds” (1897), the superior Martian invaders were defeated in the end by “the humblest thing that God in His wisdom put upon this Earth”—by microbes, who caused the defenseless Martians to catch colds...