Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...emergence of an alternative capable of turning the tide against the Communists. To call it quits now before democratic forces in South Vietnam have had a chance to rally and fight would be to betray them once more, and this time irretrievably. The South Vietnamese people would be left defenseless, without any prospect for self-determination--unless we believe as the letter implies that, unlike Diem, the Communists will 'allow normal democratic procedures for political opposition and an orderly change of government...
...obviously chosen tax cut legislation as his dearest treasure in the coming session of Congress. If he plays this game as he played Trade Expansion a year ago, he will no doubt be willing to sacrifice everything else. Yet he ought not forget that if he leaves foreign aid defenseless this year he will do far worse than cause the resignation of the tenth aid agency director in eleven years; he will hear the death-rattle of the program itself...
...became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian population, killing 1,654 in a few hours. That was a Nazi show...
...being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru a submachine gun as a gift...