Word: unpreparedness
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But for the final plunge, he pleaded, Spain was too poor and unprepared. Germany must first send more wheat to feed the hungry Spaniards and guns to reduce Gibraltar. When the Axis crashed, he cleared from his desk in El Prado the autographed portraits of Hitler and Mussolini. He orated...
Frankly unprepared for the cross-country and jumping contests, the team yielded all but the bottom posts, although Estin eked out a 12-out-of-17 in the former and 16-out-of-20 in the latter to rate the team a final fourth.
As soon as Ferguson quit, the burden was taken up by Wisconsin's huge, garrulous Congressman Frank B. Keefe, bent on proving that somebody was highly unprepared for war in 1941. (Congressman Keefe had prepared for it by voting against Lend-Lease, against arming merchant ships, against extending the...
The President shook his head. He wanted a hole card on the table. He needed the fleet in Hawaii as a "restraining influence on Japan." "But," protested "Joe" Richardson, "Japan has a military government which knows our fleet is undermanned . . . unprepared. . . ." "Despite what you believe," the President said, "I know...
Counterbattery. The Navy was far from being caught unprepared by the Army's offensive, but still it had to improvise a defense. Secretary Forrestal conferred time & again, sometimes until far into the night, with the top brass in his department-Admirals King and Edwards, Home and Mitscher-and was...