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Suspects Raped 'Defenseless' Disabled Women on Tape
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Defenseless, as far as these young wolves knew...yet they would threaten him with death simply for being a poor vagrant.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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Defenseless Children: Returning to Walter's childhood experiments on Olivia brought about some great character work.
‘Fringe’ Episode 2.15 Recap: ‘Jacksonville’ » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Chicago Bears Defenseless in 41-21 Loss to Arizona Cardinals 2009
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Defenseless, as far as these young wolves knew...yet they would threaten him with death simply for being a poor vagrant.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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He quotes W.H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939," when "Defenseless under the night/Our world in stupor lies ...."
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Auden's poem "September 1, 1939," when "Defenseless under the night/Our world in stupor lies...."
Christopher Hitchens'"Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Defenseless, thanks to you and your hand-holding, hippie love holiday, you saboteur!
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He quotes W.H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939," when "Defenseless under the night/Our world in stupor lies ...."
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As George Orwell summed such campaigns up in 1946 in his essay "Politics and the English Language": "Defenseless villagers are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set afire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification."
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