Word: defenselessness
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...Battista could not muster. He approached the most tender passages in a hard-boiled manner: although technically facile, he seemed suspicious of both sensitivity and real clarity. Thus the episodic character of the music, far from being disguised, was exaggerated to a degree which left the piece all but defenseless. It never had much armor anyhow--which is not surprising, considering that Chopin was only nineteen when he wrote...
...into trouble a few weeks ago, rumors got around that the Russians were building up troop concentrations on Sakhalin. Whether based on fact or not, the rumors made the U.S. high command sharply conscious that Japan's occupation garrison had been shipped to Korea, leaving the islands virtually defenseless on the ground. A Russian invasion of Japan from Sakhalin could outflank and trap U.N. forces in Korea...
During 1950 the U.S. gradually realized that ECA was both successful and inadequate. It made Europe "economically viable" but still defenseless against the Red army and its allies, the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Eisenhower's trip and its American aftermath settled U.S. acceptance of responsibility for leadership of the military defense of Europe...
...greater than in 1946. The present Iran picture is one of all-round distrust between Americans, British and Iranians. Desperately and suicidally, the Iranians are back in an old game that they cannot win-trying to play the Russians off against the Western powers. Divided and discouraged, Iran lies defenseless-and the U.S. is doing nothing to protect...
...with his advisers, Tibet's ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, made a hasty flight from his capital. Ahead of him went a thousand-mule train carrying 75 tons of the palace treasures. Before leaving, the Lama's government notified Chinese Communist headquarters that it was defenseless and ready to sue for peace. The new rulers of Tibet radioed back instructions to all government officers to stay...