Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of the bill, explained to a House Judiciary Subcommittee last week: "This bill applies to every kind of election, federal, state and local, including primaries. It is designed to deal with the two principal means of frustrating the 15th Amendment: the use of onerous, vague, unfair tests and devices enacted for the purpose of disenfranchising Negroes, and the discriminatory administration of these and other kinds of registration requirements...
...contracted beriberi from living on soda crackers in college, never earned more than $8,500 a year, never took a loan. He was precious, persnickety, sometimes naive. He refused to recruit players or give athletic scholarships. "I would rather lose every game than win one by unfair means," he said. Over the years Amos Alonzo Stagg won a fantastic 310 games - and invented just about everything there is to football today...
...seventh International Chopin Piano Competition began with a cloud of controversy and ended with a puff of perfume. As the field of 83 contestants was whittled down, one U.S. entrant who was eliminated lodged a sourgrapes complaint that the judges (14 from Communist nations, seven from Western countries) were "unfair" in advancing all twelve Russian and Polish performers. Yet when the final round opened last week, for the first time in the 38-year history of the competition (held every five years, except for an interruption during the war) there was not a single Russian in contention. If anything...
Bernstein's fellow philosophy professors had unanimously recommended him for a tenure vacancy, and Professor Paul Weiss called the committee's decision "stupid, unfair, dismaying." Professor Robert S. Brumbaugh pointed out that under the committee's criteria, "we could not have gotten tenure for Aristotle when he was 32, we could not have gotten it for Kant, and on a much homelier level, I could not have gotten it." After the wave of criticism, the committee decided to consider reopening the case...
...Improved American is anything but a work of philosophy, so it may be unfair to criticize its author for his unphilosophical shortsightedness. But even on its home ground the book has serious flaws. What if the retrained truck driver-come-welder can't find work as a welder? And what if his aptitude is so low that he can't be made into a hirable welder in the first place? Asbell skips over these disturbing eventualities with disarming haste. His darling is the unemployed man who turns out to have above-average abilities, who is young enough to be attractive...