Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...status of our regular Army and Navy that gives me that defenseless feeling, it's the lack of reserves, and this worry in turn raises the question of why cannot there be organized in the U. S. a voluntary reserve force...
...Defenseless Feeling...
With the suddenness of a Nazi diplomatic bomb, the referendum on elections burst upon defenseless freshmen this morning. They are given absolutely no warning; they are given just as little time to think. Showing an unfortunate tendency to steamroller techniques, the plebiscite fails to present the question fairly. By its timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede freshmen into approval of the old system...
...STARVE. At a banquet at which Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot was-speaking on leisure, Wal's men appeared with signs reading: LEISURE IS NO PLEASURE. They crowded into a white-tie feast attended by Civilian Defense Chief Sir John Anderson, flopped in the foyer like defenseless citizens in an air raid, and shouted for work on air raid precautions projects...
Madrid had held out for two and a half years. But Madrid lies on a plain and behind a deep-cut river bed. Barcelona lies defenseless in a cup. Furthermore, when the Rebels tried to take Madrid in 1936 they were far inferior in numbers and not much better off in material than the defenders. And the defenders of Madrid were spirited militia, men like the "iron" regiment which snatched up its arms from the dead. The Republican Army that was forced back on Barcelona had been outnumbered and smashed for five weeks by the greatest concentration of war material...