Word: defenselessness
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...were such a good, defenseless, sun-filled tree, my unforgettable one, my love, my prince...
Back in Kenya, Leakey has seen hungry lions walk through camps past sleeping, defenseless men to stalk and kill nearby antelope. On the rare occasions when they do kill a man, he says, they merely sniff at his body and walk away in disgust with nary a taste. He also notes that the big cats feast on baboons but generally disdain chimpanzees, which are closer relatives of man and presumably give off their version of the manlike odor that these predators find so unattractive. "To this odor," Leakey believes, "we owe our survival. Man is not cat food...
...Defenseless Harvard tried to outscore the defending champions and raced to a 3-3 first-period draw. But goalie Bill Fitzsimmons, who had an unfortunate off night, resembled a turnstyle in the final period, with each click adding to B.U.'s final margin...
...fact, "The Last War" succumbs to only one thoroughly predictable stereotype--that of an immaculately dressed Communist officer who shorts a defenseless old village chief without blinking...
...obviously hoped that by controlling their movements they would get a view of U.S. bombing as ineffectual against military targets and brutal against civilians. It hoped, by this distorted picture, to reinforce the widely held impression that the U.S. is a big powerful nation viciously bombing a small, defenseless country into oblivion, and thus spur international demands...