Word: defenselessness
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...unarmed country whose ultimate protector, the United States, has proved itself utterly vacillating in dealing with these Leninists, Arias is hardly a free agent, let alone a philosopher king. He is less the detached Central American pondering the fate of his continent than he is President of a defenseless principality looking to secure its future...
...attacked her village at night, Felice Maria Arundo snatched up her son and daughter and fled into the bush until the screaming and shooting stopped. Morning found the grass huts burned and the ground strewn with the bodies of older villagers. Some of the young had been carried off. Defenseless and desperate, Felice Maria and other survivors headed east. Her two-year-old son died before they reached the protected settlement of Inhaminga eight days later. Her ten-year-old daughter was shriveled from starvation but still alive. All they wore was strips of bark. "They come in like this...
...presidential commission of 13 people, many with dubious qualifications. After three months, the chairman, a doctor, resigned in frustration and was replaced by an admiral. The commission's final recommendations are supposed to appear next summer. Beyond that, the Administration busied itself in imposing compulsory AIDS tests on certain defenseless groups (federal prisoners and would-be immigrants, for instance), a move that compromised civil rights without accomplishing much of anything. Gay rights groups excoriated the Administration for inactivity, and the New York Times concluded that Reagan's lack of a coherent policy on AIDS was "beyond comprehension or excuse...
...Tonton Macoutes and the army were coming back to finish the job, to kill the journalists," said Bentley. "We raced toward the back door of the school, running over bodies as we left. A British reporter in front of me was hit in the lower leg. We were totally defenseless: no guns, just cameras." Still under fire, Bentley scaled a 10-ft.-high cinder-block wall, scrambled over another wall strung with barbed wire and finally escaped down a maze of narrow passages...
These instances show what a liability a goon can be to a team. But goons as a whole are a liability to the NHL. The league's image is tarnished when a particularly vicious cheap shot is leveled against a defenseless player...