Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munich but at the locust years, 1934 and 1935, that the finger of criticism should be pointed." For despite Chamberlain's "most valiant" championship of rearmament in the mid-'30's, so little was done that by September 1938. Britain was almost completely defenseless against air attack, had only a token quantity of modern antiaircraft guns and one operational Spitfire squadron. "After Munich," says Iain Macleod, "the last strong hopes of peace were not allowed to hold back our accelerating preparations against...
Sadly Mistaken. On the other hand, if Khrushchev expected that he could bully and stampede the free world into a state of defenseless fear, he was sadly mistaken. "We must not be cowed," said Secretary General Shigesaburo Maeo of Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when...
...this context the actual questions of whether officers should be permitted to teach the jargon of the right and show "Operation Abolition" to their men seem relatively trivial. What matters is that McNamara's stand has illustrated with remarkable clarity that the government need not be defenseless against the McCarthys and the McCloeds; they are not agents of irresistible currents of history. Adherence to procedures with which every industrial executive is familiar is a useful safeguard against the demoralization of civilian and military officials who believe, as McNamara said after the Thurmond hearings, that the menace of Communism "comes more...
...rules of the road." Hot-rodding across the water, many young boatmen have towed water skiers into stumps or other boats; one small lake near San Antonio noted one death per week last summer. At Lake Lavon, near Dallas, speed demons and water skiers thundered down on so many defenseless fishermen that a virtual state of war existed. Shaken, splashed and enraged, the fishermen took to throwing heavy plugs and razored hooks at the water skiers; driven beyond restraint, one fisherman stood in his boat with a shotgun and threatened to blow the next boat that rushed him right...
...self- a sewerful of unconscious Poe's "Eulalie"'. "I dwelt a world of moan, And my was a stagnant tide, Till the gentle Eulalie became my bride." Of these I on Macaulay most: to Spain and saw only disguised and increased , dominions of vast bulk strength, tempting, un, and defenseless, an empty ry, a sullen and torpid nation, on the throne, factions on the council, ministers who served only themselves, and soldiers who were terrible only to their countrymen, Men looked to France, and saw a large and compact territory, a rich soil, a central situation...an active and ambitious...