Word: defenselessness
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Three hours later, with smoke belching from the roof of the National Hotel and great breaches gaping in its walls, the officers ran up a flag of truce. As they marched out, laid down their arms and prepared to surrender, the soldiers suddenly opened fire, shot ten defenseless officers dead in their tracks. Thirty more dead officers were found in the hotel. While the living were roughly carted off to jail, their civilian sympathizers on housetops fired into the ranks of the soldier-captors, killed 20. Soon after the officers were imprisoned, the crack of rifle squads sounded grimly from...
...pounds by a reporter for an article on "How it Feels To Be Going Blind"; Mr. Joyce exercised the pleasant privilege of having the man thrown out on his car. The Harvard student cannot do that. The Harvard student cannot even retreat to the Fijis or Manchonkuo. He is defenseless...
...would be "properly regulated." As confidence in Premier Lyons quelled the storm of opposition, Sydney's Morning Herald gratefully declared that development of the Northern Territory by chartered companies would be "a great service to the Commonwealth economically and a great assistance in the defense of an empty, defenseless region...
...have not, as head of the Department of Aeronautics, one plane in all Germany which I could have sent aloft yesterday. The incident shows how defenseless Germany is. Communistic planes might come over here any time...
...Edouard Daladier limited himself to a lukewarm acceptance of the four-power pact, there were many ventriloquist dummies available to say what he and most Frenchmen really felt. Loudest was the French Press, howling down the Mussolini Plan as an international plot to render France defenseless and rob her of hard-earned gains...