Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time it looked as though the few British planes in air might be able to turn the trick. Four Stukas crumpled under their fire. The Ju. 87Bs-dreadful when unopposed, but so slow and defenseless in air battle that they had proved useless over Britain-broke for home...
Graziani, who made his fierce reputation by fighting defenseless natives in Africa, was in a fair way to lose his lustre in the Libyan sands. To excuse himself, he last week issued a report to II Duce which was, to military historians, an amazing mixture of accusation, frankness and bombast...
...their mind's eye his visitors could see attack planes, spitting death at the horsemen on the crowded slope, or diving at them during their brief massing before they could dismount and take cover; or enemy scout cars and tanks, crawling across the bondocks toward flowing (and temporarily defenseless) horsemen...
...captured, was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, who resigned as Secretary of the Fascist Party to get actively into the fighting. After several days he turned up alive, whereupon Mussolini gave him a silver medal (his ninth) for organizing and leading an October long-range bombing raid on the defenseless Bahrein Archipelago oil fields...
Without an instant's hesitation, out of the line of defenseless freighters and straight for the death-laden steel-clad swerved the 14,164-ton armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay, a hardy old packet of the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line which used to take freight and poor emigrants from Britain out to Australia. She had just six 6-inch guns and no armor plate over her ribs. Her commander was an Irish admiral's middle-aged son named Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan. He had promised his men that if ever they met the enemy they would face...