Word: unpreparedness
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The Administration, which had repeatedly asked for much milder stand-by powers only to be ignored by the Republican Congress, was wholly unprepared for the sweeping powers concealed in the draft act. So far there is no need for them. Except in the aircraft industry, defense orders are generally small...
The attacks that followed from the benches of the Left & Right sounded somewhat faint. Their thunder had been stolen two days before by General Charles de Gaulle. He had unloosed a jeremiad denouncing Bidault and offering to form a new government ("I myself am ready"). The London agreement he flayed...
¶ "The Unitarian church discharges a 'vestibule' function in relation to the larger Christian church, inviting into itself as a foyer the unchurched but searching souls of our age who are as yet unprepared to penetrate into the Protestant sanctuary."
He fought the war's first year in the nation's unprepared factories. Mrs. Marshall prayed: "Give him time, 0 Lord." When he talked to her, "I had the feeling that he was really talking to himself," she wrote. "It was as though he lived outside of himself...
General Fu was something of a novelty among Chinese generals. In the field, he wore the plain cotton-padded uniform of a private, drove his own jeep, ate with his men. U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had found those men the best-drilled soldiers in China. So, before that, had...