Word: unpreparedness
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Died. Santiago Casares Quiroga, 59, Premier of Spain when the civil war broke out in 1936; in Paris. A moderate leftist, Casares Quiroga was so busy trying to deal with Communist-led strikes and sabotage that the Franco-led rebellion caught him unprepared. He resigned, joined the Loyalist Civil Guard...
The second half of Bush's thesis is more acceptable. His belief that science in a democracy is necessarily more creative than that in a totalitarian state is pretty suspect--at the end of the war Nazi scientist were well ahead of the Allies in the development of aircraft, guided...
Probably the immediate presentation of a guest speaker saved Littauer from immediate ravage. The guest, after excusing himself as "unprepared for this unexpected situation," took out his speech and read. Its main thesis was that the CCA, if it was allowed to carry through one of its campaign promises to...
"Leaving home and going to college is such an experience," he continued. "Leaving college and going on to graduate study or out into the world is another. Getting married . . . the loss of a job . . . the death of someone near to us . . . They are the times for which we are unprepared...
Since the uproar over his confirmation as atomic boss in the spring of 1947, they had paid little attention to David Lilienthal-a fact which Lilienthal himself privately deplored. But they had their light fixed on him now. As baffled as they were, and as unprepared as they were, they...