Word: defenselessness
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...Some [army] units have not got any pay for two months, and they have no food, with the result that they disobey orders and loot from the civilian population." The Congolese army in Kasai province was running wild, "engaged in slaughter not only of combatants but also of defenseless civilians." Some victims "were deliberately killed simply on the ground that they were Balubas," Hammarskjold said. "Should it be supposed that the duty of the United Nations to observe strict neutrality . . . means that the United Nations cannot take action in such cases...
...surrounding countryside and Ember, promoted from subaltern to Commissioner of Deceased Persons, runs out both coffins and burial parties. At novel's end the army marches off to another regrouping point, still expecting 'ever new and more glorious victories." The surviving Drohitzers are left in a defenseless city, a death trap for the advancing enemy...
Pictured in the popular mind as a bastion of Empire comparable to Gibraltar and Malta, Singapore was in reality a defenseless, polyglot commercial town of Chinese. Japanese, Indians, Jews and British who were as divided on their feelings about the war as they were in their peacetime pursuits: "East was East, and West was West, and the twain did not meet except to exchange dollars or back horses." While guns boomed within earshot up the peninsula, life went on in Singapore much as before, with bars, brothels and theaters thriving. In typical shrewd Singapore fashion, people turned...
...billion increase in the defense budget, plus a $500 million civil defense program, "to meet the physical danger in which America lives." U.S long-range missiles are "inferior in number" to the Russians', U.S. bomber bases are "defenseless," limited-war forces are "inadequate in strength and mobility...
Nikita's moral: "The U.S. wants to live according to this law. But we are not a defenseless passerby. If the U.S. has not yet experienced a real war on its territory, has not experienced air raids, and if it wishes to unleash a war, we shall be compelled to fire rockets which will explode on the aggressor's territory in the very first minutes...