Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which were in a filthy condition and overcrowded . . . Elli said that 18 of the prisoners with her died in one day . . . The women were classified according to their capacity to work . . . They were put in four groups . . . Those in the fourth group, called O.K. (ohne Kraft-without strength), were unfit for anything except cleaning and other chores in the camp...
From the university's music-department head, O. Anderson Fuller, came a brisk reminder: "In this song you will find such words as 'mammy', 'pickaninny' and 'darkies', which render any song unfit and unworthy of such a high honor." Lincoln's orchestra, he wrote, would have to decline the invitation to play...
...required to produce a ream of documents attesting to the character, health, religious, economic and political integrity of the persons applying. Ninety-eight percent of the couples genuinely in love are given a flat "no" on the implied grounds that the Korean is a sort of subhuman type unfit for life...
...called up a few months ago, he devised a plan. He located a former employee, now destitute and suffering from tuberculosis, supplied him witha forged identity card and paid him $1,500 to appear as Michael Chryssicopoulos before an army medical board. The ex-employee was promptly rejected as unfit...
...last week, editors of 47 Japanese newspapers and wire services were summoned to SCAP's Censorship Division for some big news. After almost three years, censorship (already suspended for most of the Japanese press) was abolished; henceforth editors will have to figure out for themselves what is unfit to print. But they were warned that censorship might be restored, or editors suspended for not observing the occupation "press code...