Word: unpreparedness
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Despite some few preparations, peace had caught the U.S. unprepared. On the morning after Japanese capitulation and the riotous celebrations that followed, many a citizen realized how inadequate his imagination had been in picturing the days to come. Peace was here, and for the time being little else mattered. Eventually...
Beyond the fence were other barriers. When the foreigners spoke brokenly or had trouble with restaurant menus, some Oswegonians snickered. Once, when a Yugoslav couple bade a visitor goodbye at the bus station and the men kissed each other on the cheek, townfolk watched with open amusement. Staid Oswego (pop...
Despite the slow seepage of horror from earlier reports, I was unprepared for your account [TIME, April 30] of the German concentration camps. Erla-the trapped, clawing, burning men; Buchenwald-the massive cordwood of the starved dead; Belsen-the small children, "too nearly dead themselves to cry," nestled against the...
Perhaps the enemy had been puzzled as to where the landings would come, and unprepared where they did come. Perhaps he planned to give up the hard-to-defend southern part of the island and retreat into the mountainous north.
After World War I, many a school and college adopted an all-thumbs rule-of-thumb which gave veterans too much credit, put them in advanced courses for which they were unprepared. Result: wholesale flunking. Now the American Council on Education, working closely with the armed services, is taking a...