Word: defenselessness
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Harvard Square bookstores which have continued to sell Fanny Hill will be "virtually defenseless" in criminal prosecution if the book is ultimately found "obscence, impure, and indecent," a spokesman for the state Attorney General's office said last night...
...policy for Latin America, which the U.S. Government has initiated with the shooting of defenseless Panamanians during the struggle of flag raising in the Canal Zone, can be entitled "how to make enemies and lose friends." Insecurity, arrogance, selfishness and cynicism were demonstrated by the "Zonians" in their violent action. Instead of leaving the decisions to teenagers, the Canal Zone authorities should have taken the necessary steps to execute the agreement between U.S. and Panamanian governments in relation to flag raising in the Canal Zone territory of the Republic of Panama. It is inconceivable that the greatest nation on earth...
...seconds later Bill Fryer fed the puck straight down the center to Kinasewich who took it right into the defenseless Minnesota net making the score...
...Starzl's Denver team also performed the spleen transplant between mother and son. The boy, Richard Hill, suffered from a shortage of gamma globulin in his blood, leaving him virtually defenseless against infectious diseases. This shortage arose largely from the failure of his spleen to produce enough of the antibodies that make up an important fraction of gamma globulin. The boy's mother, Mrs. Jacqueline Carver, had a good supply of gamma globulin, and her lymphatic system would maintain it. She could get along without her spleen far better than her son. The operations were performed in June...
...absence of enemy opposition in the landing area could be largely traced to Viet Cong fear of the rocket-carrying Hueys. Before their arrival in South Viet Nam last fall, devastating Communist ground fire against the lumbering, defenseless H-21s threatened to halt the government's helicopter airlift campaign, which had been the most effective offensive tactic against the Red guerrillas. Reluctantly the top U.S. military brass, which had long been skeptical that a helicopter could ever be a deadly offensive weapon, threw the newly-arrived Hueys into combat. Their mission: to escort and protect the troop-carrying copters...