Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the Ebro into relative safety. After that the men knew that the People's Army was being overpowered by German and Italian force, that they were the tail-end of the International volunteers. Scared Spanish boys came in as replacements, together with deserters and "goldbricks" once thought unfit for fighting. One soldier wept. "They killed all the good guys," he said. "I seen guys die had more room between the eyes than [the new men] got across the shoulders...
Last fortnight Lord Beaverbrook's Hearst-like London Sunday Express demanded that hopelessly unfit oldsters should be retired at once in favor of nimbler men, who, as directors of industry, would then be exempt from the draft. Suggesting that shareholders look over their boards of directors, the Express advised a test: "Ask the chairman if he can ride a bicycle. If he can't, then get a new chairman...
...bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, a New Jersey saloonkeeper, has made this boast to anyone within earshot. And for five years everyone within earshot has smiled at the pasty, pudgy little prattler and his self-appraised ability to knock out the best prizefighter in the world. He looked as unfit for the prize ring as a dachshund for a greyhound race...
...June 28 Champion Joe Louis is scheduled to defend his title against barrel-bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, another unfit...
Following Anschluss, 15,000 Austrians were deemed unfit to continue at liberty. The Jewish pogroms of last November which so shocked the world and which were directed personally by Gestapo Chief Himmler temporarily trebled the population of the already bulging camps. During the last few weeks some 20,000 arrests have been made in newly acquired Bohemia and Moravia...