Word: defenselessness
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...emergence of an alternative capable of turning the tide against the Communists. To call it quits now before democratic forces in South Vietnam have had a chance to rally and fight would be to betray them once more, and this time irretrievably. The South Vietnamese people would be left defenseless, without any prospect for self-determination--unless we believe as the letter implies that, unlike Diem, the Communists will 'allow normal democratic procedures for political opposition and an orderly change of government...
...obviously chosen tax cut legislation as his dearest treasure in the coming session of Congress. If he plays this game as he played Trade Expansion a year ago, he will no doubt be willing to sacrifice everything else. Yet he ought not forget that if he leaves foreign aid defenseless this year he will do far worse than cause the resignation of the tenth aid agency director in eleven years; he will hear the death-rattle of the program itself...
...became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian population, killing 1,654 in a few hours. That was a Nazi show...
...being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru a submachine gun as a gift...
...series of smashing victories in the border war with India. Chinese troops swept down from the towering Himalayas and were poised at the edge of the fertile plains of Assam, whose jute and tea plantations account for one-fourth of India's export trade. Then, with Assam lying defenseless before her conquering army. Red China suddenly called a halt to the fighting...