Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Base: With the fall and the so-called social season just beginning, some of the lads jumped the gun over the past weekend. Wellesley an its new Freshman class was the scene of the most activity, as a howling mob swep down upon the poor defenseless little girlies. Ed Johnson and Art Hein challenge that last statement. It seems that both of these boys chanced upon the same young lady. While no willow thing, she was a girl, and that's something. Net result of the encounter: two badly bruised young Ensigns. It seen Miss Wellesley was the captain...
...that the Russian Orthodox priests and their congregations would flock to the side of Rus sia's Nazi invaders, who would free them from the persecuting Bolsheviks. What Hitler did not foresee was that his inva sion would turn Russia from a country in which a majority of defenseless Christians was ruled by an aggressive anti-religious minority into a nation in arms, in which the majority, though intensely patriotic, was no longer defenseless...
...Mussolini, who did not hesitate to use poisonous gas through Badoglio against defenseless people . . . should certainly not be permitted to end his days in safe retirement. . . . Ethiopia is less interested in vengeance for the past than in justice for the future. . . . Much more important . . . [is] the building and maintaining of international institutions that will prevent the rise of political bullies trampling on the rights of small nations...
Less than a year ago, Germany was reaching across Africa and into the Caucasus, preparing to strike at Suez. A huge pincers movement threatened to put the entire Middle East in Axis hands. Japan, victorious in Burma, stood at the threshold of an almost defenseless, politically confused India. The enemy had a very good chance to join hands; the result might easily have been the complete defeat of Russia, Britain, the U.S. and China...
Hainan Island is an important intermediary base for planes en route between Japanese factories and the South Seas. Yet it was practically defenseless: the Japs had stripped interior bases to concentrate defense strength on the outer rim of their sprawling empire. The presence of long-range bombers in China may compel the Japs to reallocate some of their defensive strength to the interior. But, to be telling, bombing raids must be sustained, and in greater force than the Allies have so far been able to assemble and supply in blockaded China...