Word: defenseless
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...Japanese coup of five years ago. From the decks of three aircraft carriers, 230 planes were flown against Oahu.* The defense was alerted and did its best in mock dogfights, but the attackers won by "destroying" the vital airfields which ring the great naval base, leaving it virtually defenseless...
...most prestigious test factory in the U.S. is in Princeton, N. J. Last week the factory worked overtime cooking up new devilments for defenseless scholars. An old client, the Navy, wanted a new test to pick 5,000 candidates for Annapolis...
German has no fear of the strong man, of the armed man who face him with courage. . . . The German fears the defenseless, the weak and the sick...
Rooted in racial and economic prejudices as outmoded as Salem witch-trials, the present United States immigration policy of restriction stands as a defenseless blot on our national conscience. On ethical grounds,-America, founded and populated by millions escaping political or religious persecution, is irrevocably committed to liberal immigration. But humanitarian reasons have been secondary to a people who grudgingly legalize entry for 39,000 Eastern and Southern Europeans annually, while 850,000 wallow homeless in Allied DI' camps alone. The causes of American inaction are deeper and deserve examination...
...Representatives of the fanatical Government minority, they rule the vast, inert, defenseless Russian masses, as all minorities must, chiefly by means of an omnipresent secret police and its informers, by intricate economic controls that make every Russian dependent on the Government for his livelihood, and by hope-hope for a better future, which never comes, but which beckons with each new Five-Year Plan from the disastrous present. But when these controls creak under the enormous task, purges are a summary corrective-at once a technique of dictatorship and a reflex of fear...