Word: defenseless
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...country is worse than its unpreparedness in arms. . . . The effect [of these authors' books] has been to immunize the young generation against any attempt in its own country by its own leaders to foment a war by waving moral flags and rhetorical phrases. But they have left it defenseless before an aggressor whose cynicism, brutality and whose stated intention to enslave present the issue of the future in moral terms...
Last week the U. S. felt suddenly defenseless. The hurricane that had struck Europe, the gathering clouds in the Three Easts, had come, with nightmare speed, close, real and threatening. The reaction was profound -broad and deep. As in few times of peace the Nation spoke as a whole and the voice came clear to Congress: Arm. Arm the U. S. for what may come...
...world wonder. Germany officially announced that this exploit was accomplished by use of a new Angriffsmittel (attack method) operated by one Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot who landed his plane inside the fortress and in a few minutes, "despite heavy de fense measures," rendered its 1,000 occupants so defenseless that a mechanized Nazi column which soon arrived easily took the Belgians prisoner...
...north a German force last week reached the Swedish frontier on the railroad line from Trondheim that crosses the narrow part of Norway, and cuts into middle Sweden, turning southward toward Stockholm. From Copenhagen the Germans could pour an endless column of men into Sweden's flat and defenseless bottom. From new air bases in Denmark, Nazi bombers can more easily than ever lay eggs of death in Swedish cities...
...were crowded around the "Greeting Card" counter in most unromantic proximity, and there was an imminent danger that the riot squad would have to be called out to resuscitate an aggressive little lady rapidly languishing in the midst of the press. Four determined looking Radcliffe girls were badgering a defenseless and bewildered football player into a neutral corner. And Vag doggedly circled the outskirts of the mob, looking for a weak spot to assail. Around him reared the walls of the edifice Mr. Woolworth had built of all the little nickels and times...