Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespearean pundits such as Harry T. Levin '33, associate professor of English, and Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, lecturers in English 25a and English 23a respectively, have been briefing defenseless classes daily on how to enjoy the big show...
...libraries, kept their ears to the ground for rumors. Explained Adman Douglas Murphey, a leader of the drive: "As members of an institution whose Founder warned, 'Judge not that ye be not judged,' we have no right to question any man's conscience. Are we then defenseless? No, we have also been told, 'He that is not with me is against...
...Indian Army could be broken into two efficient parts, the main mission of each would be to watch the other. This cancellation would leave India defenseless, invite the evolution of Pakistan and Hindustan into Stalinistan...
...Coward's proud and loving tribute to the unbreakable British backbone. It tells the story of the lower-middle-class Gibbons family between Wars I & II. The film opens and ends with a fine Technicolor shot of the roofs of London. In the closing shot the roofs lie defenseless to the hell that is soon to crack them open. But by then, Coward has made clear how ready the people under the roofs are to endure the worst and to prevail against it. He shows this never through flat heroics, but through the quiet, immense courage, patience, kindliness...
...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...