Word: unpreparedness
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Poor Seltzer! His myopic left eye kept him from being a navigator, and he never could find the office of the Geodetic Survey, and within a month the Army drafted him. Unwise, unprepared, he was told that his best aptitude was automobile mechanics and was assigned to bus tables at...
Adlai* Stevenson made a good first impression, but with Chicago's initial enthusiasm past, he had to face some hard realities. He was virtually unprepared for the exacting business of running for the presidency. He had no personal campaign staff. He did not even have a headquarters with enough...
A squadron of the British fleet, entrusted to Commodore Martin, suddenly appeared in the Bay of Naples [m 1742], and threatened an immediate bombardment unless the King would engage in writing to withdraw his troops from the Spanish army, and to observe in future a strict neutrality. The Neapolitan court...
An ominous warning from the faculty that any "intellectual bootlegging" of lecture notes would be prosecuted sobered unprepared freshmen who thought that one of the Square tutoring schools would be just the thing. Still Widow Nolan's did a flourishing business and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed...
"Just as...it (our leadership) plunged us unprepared into the Korean war, it is now preparing us for a war in Europe.