Word: defenselessness
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...There were more where he came from. And as long as he was-on his feet he knocked out U.S. soldiers with his small arms. If this had not been true, there would have been no necessity for the U.S. Army's retirement to its prepared positions ringing defenseless, bomb-battered Manila...
...city the Japanese chose to bomb was completely defenseless. Its streets were bare of uniformed soldiers, tanks, army trucks. Barracks and military headquarters were empty. Day before Japanese planes had scouted it, had met no antiaircraft fire. General Douglas MacArthur had kept his word: Manila was protected only by the international law of "the open city...
TIME'S account of the visit of the Windsors [TIME, Oct. 6] was one of the crudest bits of writing ever to appear in your notoriously unkind pages, which must set a record of some sort. Rather a cheap record, however, because the officially snubbed Windsors are quite defenseless; hardly fair game for your newshawk's acid-tipped beak...
...quiet west coast resort. But the war she describes is the real war of nerves that went on in the minds of all Britons on the home front in "the day when heaven was falling, the hour when earth's foundations fled," and England lay almost defenseless, waiting for Nazi invasion. Mrs. Kennedy felt many things with a visceral vividness that many men must also have felt but would not tell about. She describes them with frank female intensity...
...massive mahogany fourposter, a hateful woman whose keen mind and force of character command respect, Regina lures her unloved and invalided husband (Herbert Marshall) home to persuade him to invest his funds in her ratty brothers' scheme: to take advantage of the South's cheap and defenseless labor by establishing a cotton factory in partnership with a Northern capitalist. When he balks, she torments him to death, then emerges triumphant over the rest of the greedy pack...