Word: defenselessness
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...watched defenseless delegates from the Democratic National Convention strolling blithely along Eighth Avenue near Times Square one night last week, a native New Yorker feared for their safety. "I kept wanting to shout to them to jump in a cab and get out of there," he exclaimed. "But then I noticed that the whole street was strangely quiet. Most of the usual weird people weren't there...
...hear a now familiar tone of self-justification and self-excuse: "... excesses occurred ... the actions of inexperienced, untested troops who were carried away in the heat of battle ..." As for the word massacre, Indian Historian Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) declared that "when you fire on defenseless women and children with Gatling guns, I don't know what other word...
...Colonial exploitation raped defenseless societies, depriving them of their natural resources and destroying traditional social relationships...
Plenty of journalists disagree. New York Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal scoffs at Fulbright's fears: "The idea that a big strong press is constantly stripping the poor defenseless Government is absurd. There is a vast army of public relations men representing the Government and business views. That 'official' version dominates the press, so the investigative process becomes more and more important." Says Columnist Jack Anderson: "The founding fathers intended us to be watchdogs, not lapdogs...
...this would not have been possible had not Harvard's offensive line, impeccably coached by George Carras, picked up the Brown defense early in the game. The line, led by Captain and tackle Dan Jiggets, stood an impenetrable--usually--blockade, making the Bruin defense look defenseless...