Word: defenselessness
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...Martin Luther King sent a telegram yesterday to H. Reed Ellis '65, president of the now defunct HCUA, urging response "to the vicious maltreatment of defenseless citizens of Alabama...
...previous U.S.-Belgian Stanleyville massacre was not an adequate paratroop exercise, consider the fate of the defenseless and dedicated Peace Corps workers, Missionaries, U.S.-A.I.D. personnel, and teachers that are overseas. As much as we appreciate their contributions and unselfish dedication to their work, we regret to say the State Department and C.I.A. are constantly undoing and abusing their contributions to Africa...
...same government pretend to safeguard the civil liberties of more than 50 million Africans and Asians? The protection that the U.S. is trying to extend to Africans and Southeast Asians is badly needed in the southern states of the U.S. and in the Indian reservations. Several defenseless Negroes and whites that were determined to sow the seeds of democracy in the U.S. first, have been tormented, crippled, and shot dead. Is the federal government too busy with Africa and Southeast Asia to take action? Or is the Federal government handicapped by the Constitution from safeguarding her own nationals at home...
While we are prepared for the possibility of a President's death, we are all but defenseless against the probability of a President's incapacity by injury, illness, senility or other affliction. A nation bearing the responsibilities we are privileged to bear for our own security -and the security of the free world-cannot justify the appalling gamble of entrusting its security to the immobilized hands or uncomprehending mind of a Commander in Chief unable to command...
...literary and historic merit, members of the Harvard community bought an unprecedented number of copies. The Coop reported at the time that Fanny was selling "like mad." Not until their supplies were exhausted did local bookstores note that the Attorney General's office had suggested they would be "virtually defenseless" if the book were finally banned and criminal proceedings were brought against them for selling...