Word: unpreparedness
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Forgetful of the wisdom and skilled statecraft by which the founding fathers won our independence and secured our safety, and disdainful of the techniques by which all nations−even the U.S.−must preserve their interests, we entered the 20th century largely unprepared for the part we would be...
Naturally, McNeill soon turns from war to peacetime plagues. The most famous, bubonic plague, was carried westward from China and Manchuria by the marauding Mongol hordes, and decimated Asia before being brought by ship to Europe. There, it hit the unprepared Continent like evidence of God's displeasure; between...
It was not to be. Ford was deprived of what he most wanted in life: to gain the nation's highest office on his own, not to go down in history as an accidental President. Unprepared for defeat, Ford has no plans for the future. He has mused about...
Although the film is certainly not tasteless, either in plot or in presentation, violence--and violence of a particularly bizarre and painful character--runs continually throughout Marathon Man. And if those in the audience are unprepared for, or less than anxious to partake in a two hour experience of this...
But it was this group, so unprepared for the reality of their society, that Time magazine chose for a cover story in January, 1965, entitled "Today's Teenagers," describing them as representative of America's golden youth. They were wealthy, young and intelligent--they were the ones who were going...