Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the Soviet Katyusha rockets" against helpless and terrified kibbutzniks. Feldstein presents a one-sided portrayal of each party in this dilemma: the "bad guy Palestinian" is depicted simply as a massacring Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist while the "good guy Israeli" is seen only as a defenseless kibbutznik victim. There is only one enemy to be degraded in this complex Palestinian situation: the Palestinian killer...
About Carter's B-1 bomber and neutron bomb decisions: all the Russians have to do is be patient; in a few years we will be a defenseless, unionized, inflationary, welfare state...
...into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike up a conversation with her, she mutters things like "Deponent sayeth not. " But Ditchley is sending Junior to law school too, damn the expense. A good father, he figures, does not send his son into the world defenseless...
...Ireland. It really doesn't matter any more which side you are on. The Catholic Provisionals of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are just as bloodstained as the Protestants of the Ulster Defense League--so why bother to choose, when both are in the business of slaughtering the defenseless? The war in Ireland today is not a war for freedom, religious or otherwise; it is the tragic playing-out of a bloody script of instinctive hatred, of malice and fury for their own sakes. Whatever merits remain in the IRA's arguments for the liberation of Ulster--and they...
...corporate lobby in favor of the small farmer and economic justice. If the amendments Carter introduces to the Reclamation Act of 1902 in the next Congressional session significantly raise the 160-acre ceiling, the self-styled Georgia peanut farmer will have sided with agribusiness against the defenseless, the rootless, the unemployed, and the landless...