Word: unpreparedness
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Out of the Overcast. The Japs claimed to have known, two days in advance, that the blow was coming. But they were strangely unprepared when the white-starred fighters dropped out of the overcast above each of the main airfields around Tokyo and tore across the strips, strafing scores of...
The English, he says, are not dull, plodding, humdrum, hardworking. They are constitutionally indolent, and being at peace with nature find it hard to understand other people, like the Germans, who are not. So the English are always caught unprepared and forced to make up for lost time by their...
God grant that the coming peace, for which thousands of young Americans are making the supreme sacrifice, does not find us unprepared.
Then one day when Anita was 13, fate dealt her a blow that sent her reeling. A child on the street, using a street child's dialect and detail, told her the facts of life. Totally unprepared for such reality, she was plunged into a year of adolescent hell...
Europe's mud and slush of October and November caught the U.S. Army with its feet unprepared. Result: up to Dec. 12, 17,500 G.I.s had developed trench foot, something no one expected in World War II (partly because no one expected the war to settle down into mud...