Word: defenselessly
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...Simoom, the hot, dry Poison Wind of Arabia, whole parties of men sometimes perish together. Nature thinks that perhaps they lose so much water by sweating (up to two quarts an hour) in the dry air that they lose the ability to sweat and their bodies become defenseless against the heat...
...Reconciliation. Sixty religious and educational leaders (including Professor Walter Russell Bowie of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Professor Henry J. Cadbury of the Harvard Divinity School and Professor Rufus M. Jones of Quaker Haverford College) signed a statement describing U.S. raids on Japan as "large-scale massacre ... of defenseless women and children . . . [which] cannot be so 'effective' in military terms as to justify itself in terms of humanity and the future peace of the world. . . . The Japanese are not all entirely evil...
Munich, heart of Nazidom and Germany's third largest city, was torn by revolution but fought savagely nevertheless. The U.S. Seventh Army had plunged 20 miles through defenseless countryside to the outskirts of the old city where Adolf Hitler hatched his movement in a beer hall. Then suddenly nests of SS men had exploded into action and forced the Americans to battle their...
...sometimes, however, destructive of some of man's best friends. At the University of California, when walnut trees were sprayed to kill the destructive codling moth, the beneficent ladybird beetles were killed too. Result: a horde of walnut aphids, normally eaten by the ladybirds, fell on the defenseless trees and stripped their foliage...
...film is a lucid composite of several missions against sources of anything from Heinkels to ball bearings. It gives much the impression of a single day's work. The flight itself, the mortal moment when the bombers, committed to their target, are locked defenseless in their courses, the thick flakiness of flak and the grim-gay dialogue between gunners and pilots-these things have already been paralleled in the memorable Memphis Belle. But the preparation, the aftermath, the cold exactitude and inflexibility of purpose, the extraordinarily various and forceful individuality and professionalism...