Word: defenseless
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...reasons that many of us at The Crimson became journalists, because we wanted to stand up for often defenseless faculty-types who weren’t very politically sophisticated and who were under a huge public spotlight, rightly and wrongly,” says Rosenthal...
...election, attacks by insurgent groups have spiked over the past two weeks, coinciding with the formation of a new government. Most of the recent wave of attacks, which have already killed nearly 300 people since early May, are targeted at Iraqi police and security services. But as always, ordinary, defenseless civilians are caught in the middle. In Baghdad just driving to work is a deadly daily game of Russian roulette...
...comes to guns. I grew up surrounded by firearms and the boys who loved them. My father is a bona fide hunting nut who threatened to buy my son a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association for his first birthday. I myself have mowed down a variety of defenseless woodland creatures. I used to be a decent shot with a pistol, and once during the Clinton years, I spearheaded an outing of lefty political scribes for a round of skeet shooting...
...from the Robert Ludlum oeuvre. And the issue of whether a genocidal dictator will be killed doesn't have much emotional weight. Nor does the moral question--Can a person do good by killing a bad man?--mean a lot when a star is pointing a gun at a defenseless supporting player...
Exactly three minutes later, freshman Dan Bertram doubled the Eagles lead when he capitalized on an awkward carom off the corner of the boards that left the puck dangling dangerously, just feet from a defenseless Grumet-Morris...