Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western Europe might lie almost defenseless under the shadow of Red guns, but some members of European society, at least, were carrying on bravely. Egypt's King Farouk, for one, moved serenely northward through France's peaceful summer landscape. Traveling incognito as Fuad Pasha Masri (Fuad-the-Egyptian) in a glittering train of seven Cadillacs with motorcycle outriders, while his private plane hopped along beside him from one airfield to the next, he startled hotel managers by arriving unannounced in the middle of the night and demanding 22 rooms for himself and staff. (At Lyons he complained that...
...said Churchill, "by a far larger number of machines than Hitler ever had. We would also be subject to a bombardment by rocket-propelled and guided missiles-I am not speaking of atom bombs -incomparably more severe than anything we have endured or imagined ... We are more defenseless than we have ever been and I find this a terrible thought...
...must be clearly understood by everyone concerned. First, the sovereignty of Nationalist China must not be infringed-it is of utmost importance that everyone understand that this principle will be upheld to any extent and in any way necessary by the Nationalist forces on Formosa. Nationalist China is not defenseless; it has large forces on Formosa, and they will defend Formosa against anyone who seeks to infringe the sovereignty of Nationalist China...
Like other U.S. cities, Brooklyn in those days was plagued by bugs. The shy and decorative native birds did not like city life. As U.S. cities expanded, the birds retired to rural refuges, leaving the shade trees and flower gardens defenseless against insects. Officials of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences discussed the problem at length, finally sent to England for an urban bird: the English sparrow...
...broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music and shouting the merits of their beer, cough drops, cigarettes, chewing gum and automobiles at defenseless travelers...