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...rhino in an ominous drift to its left. The rhino began to circle the sugar bowl, using the bowl as cover in order to ambush the saltshaker (the visitor) from behind. The visitor became a naked and oblivious wanderer on the white linen plain. He stood frozen and defenseless as the rhino came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson has never been behind in a game. Some of its games have taken on the look of glorified target practice. A crowd shows up and the Harvard forwards pound away at a defenseless guy in pads standing in front of the net. Meanwhile, the Harvard goalies barely lift a glove or move a stick...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: An Unbeaten Aura | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

...with chocolate chip cookies, frozen yogurt, oversize muffins and all the other sweet and faddish snacks? Then you might consider cinnamon rolls, perhaps the ultimate in sugary binges. Now taking defenseless nibblers by storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Sweet Smell of Success | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--President Reagan, seeking public pressure on Congress to approve $100 million aid for "virtually defenseless" Nicaraguan rebels, declared yesterday evening that the funds are needed to "deny the Soviet Union a beachhead in North America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Asks Nation to Back Contra Aid | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...editorial in the Washington Times hit him hard on that Thursday morning. FISH OR CUT BAIT, MR. REAGAN, read the headline. These were his conservative friends talking. "If Ronald Reagan again fails to avenge the death of a defenseless American, his constituents will want to know why they sent him back for a second term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Presidency: Let's Do It | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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