Word: defenselessness
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...What we did not know was how near madness we would be; how alone; how defenseless: how beset we were with what we had heard, with what we had been taught--this, especially, we did not know...
What do all these polls mean anyway, when CBS, AP and UPI can come up with different answers? After all, there is no sampling error--they are polling all 1333 delegates. And why the small shifts every day? It is because one day, a poor defenseless woman delegate is cornered by three aggressive Nixon aides and practically battered into switching her allegiance. By the next day, Rockefeller would have heard about this, and his men would go and batter her back. In between, she may tell AP she favors Nixon, UPI she favors Rockefeller, and CBS she's uncommitted...
...concerns of our fellowship, too many statistical forms ask only about the budget and fluctuations in attendance and not about outreach and service. The Christian community needs renewal, lest it become a spiritual ghetto." The council also suggested that missionary activities should "place the church alongside the poor, the defenseless, the abused, the forgotten...
...N.R.A. argument is that if various categories of guns are prohibited, the law-abiding citizen will be left defenseless while the criminal will ignore the law and steal a gun?"as he usually does anyway." In fact, he usually does not and has no need to, when it is so ludicrously easy to purchase one legitimately. A 1965 study showed that nearly 25% of 4,069 mail-order guns shipped by two Chicago firms went to convicted criminals. In New Jersey, one in every five recipients of mail-order firearms has a criminal record. Massachusetts State Police Captain John Collins...
...some serious objections to total abolition of infant baptism. Philip Hefner of Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology argues that the ceremony marks the entrance of the Christian into the community of faith, and that by baptizing infants the church shows that he is acceptable even when defenseless before...