Word: unpreparedness
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The question was, said Lippmann, whether "the fine flower of a free press can be enjoyed only in these catch-as-catch-can interviews, with their uninformed and uninforming answers to unprepared and unconsidered questions. ..."
If the Russian demands are so unreasonable that there is no possibility of their acceptance, we can suspect that Premier Stalin's avowals of love and friendship toward all should be immersed in an entire barrel of salt before being swallowed. If their requests can reasonably be granted we should...
*In Tokyo this week, U.S. Congressman Dewey Short, member of a six-man House Military Committee touring Pacific occupation zones, declared there was "imminent danger of another Pearl Harbor in Korea . . . or Alaska. . . . We cannot risk being caught unprepared again."
In that session his seldom consulted followers were reluctant to go along, although they were as unprepared for civil war as they were for peace. Next day the hammiest actor in world politics (now that Il Duce has made his exit) had to put on another show to make the...
The 4,000,000 who came home from World War I found plenty of promises but a country unprepared either to reabsorb or support them. Veterans legislation was a hodgepodge and the Veterans Bureau was a scandal until President Harding made a halfhearted attempt to clean it up; then the...