Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lame and defenseless, the 395-m.p.h., four-engined Mercator (curiously designed, with two turbojets and two piston engines) was a sitting duck. The 670-m.p.h. Red jets swooped down in six passes altogether, scored 15 to 20 damaging hits, knocked out both starboard engines, and left the rudder usable only by its trim tabs. While Plane Commander Mayer kept a lookout, Lieut. Commander Vincent Joseph Anania, 39, the copilot at the controls, put the plane into a steep, top-speed dive and leveled out just 50 ft. above the sea. The MIGs broke off. Mayer ordered all movable equipment dumped...
...freezes," etc. are showing a mentality that comes close to neutralism. "Communism uses these people. It cajoles them, approaches them, assures them that Western concessions, withdrawal, disengagement will open the way to lasting peace. Most disengagement plans are essentially Communist creations, designed to neutralize Germany, to make Western Europe defenseless and to force the withdrawal of allied troops from the Continent-in other words, to deprive Europe and the alliance of the main pillars on which peace rests...
...death of 17 defenseless U.S. airmen calls for something more than knowledge of how they died and the sympathy of the free world. Let's shake our State Department out of its naive apathy; let's recall our Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and let's kick Soviet Ambassador "Smiling Mike" Menshikov and the rest of the bastards out of this country...
...wrinkled woman named Tomasa Batista Castillo fought to get at the prisoner: "I begged you not to kill my husband, because of our eleven children. You said the rebels could raise them." A soldier of Sosa Blanco's said calmly that he had seen the prisoner shoot 17 defenseless farmers...
...steamers, jammed to the scuppers with Jews, make the dangerous run to the Palestine beaches; murder gangs of Jews and Arabs hunt each other out in the sun-bleached hills; intrigue and chicanery fill the halls of the United Nations and the chancelleries of Europe; the innocent and the defenseless suffer and die more often than the clashing soldiery. The battle scenes are well and cleanly done, but too often the author's flag-waving enthusiasm for Zionism diminishes rather than exalts the achievement of the Israelis, particularly when Uris pictures the Arabs either as witless dupes...