Word: defenselessness
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...like HANDS ORF, COBBER! and Australian political foes accused him of disrespect. Keating retorted that he had learned "self-regard for Australia, and not some cultural cringe" toward Britain. He repeated the hoary complaint that Britain's swift loss of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942 had left Australia defenseless...
...campus. Several years ago, for instance, we allowed accusations of "racial insensitivity" made against Thernstrom to leave the private chambers of the classroom and enter, willy-nilly, into the brash and undisciplined spectacle of public discourse. In doing so, we participated in a "smear campaign" against this poor, defenseless, white male tenured professor that so traumatized him that he has refused to teach his course, "The Peopling of America," ever since...
...their banks for miles, sweeping away buildings and vehicles. With losses in the tens of millions of dollars and 15 dead, 25 counties were designated as disaster areas by President Bush. Lamented James Phillips, chief administrator in Brazoria County: "Nobody expected this in a hundred years. We were practically defenseless...
Indiana struck again 15 minutes later. Matt Coyer faked out his defender and made a pretty dish to Craig Ginsberg, who came streaking down the right side to crank the ball past a defenseless Reilly...
...anyone who thought the doyen of Washington power brokers was either pitiable or defenseless was quickly disabused of that idea last week. At a hearing before the House Banking Committee, which is investigating links between B.C.C.I. and First American, Clifford gave a forceful 90-minute soliloquy in his measured baritone, serving notice that proving him guilty would be a prodigiously difficult task...