Word: unpreparedness
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"Above all, we must select leaders whose promises we can trust. . . . We question that the men who were unable to foresee . . . conditions in time to avoid them, who could not foresee the war in time to prepare for it, who refused to believe the reports of rearming abroad when there...
"We find the same men who have led us to the greatest national debt in our history now telling us that as a nation we are weak and unprepared; that we must appropriate more billions of dollars, and devote more years of time, to building up our military forces.
How much longer is the Crimson going to sulk in its lonely ivory tower? The editorial of Monday, October 14, betrays a state of mind in the editors which would be comically naive, were it not so dangerous to the safety of our country. The editorial said, in regard to...
On a few evenings, he boasts of "perpetrating his lesson in Electricity" but to balance these conscientious evenings, he tells of several occasions when he got through Latin class only by a "squirt," which was nineteenth century jargon for a good guess in an unprepared recitation.
So she went to Paris. There everybody's morale was fine. Everybody said: "Il faut en finir"-"This time we must put an end to it." "So many Frenchmen said: 'Anyone can see that if Hitler doesn't attack now, at the peak of his strength, he...