Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donleavy. Ireland's Ralph Cusack, an eccentric horticulturist and ex-painter, has written Cadenza as if to prove that O'Brien and Donleavy were squares and that James Joyce was well within his rights when he borrowed the English language and returned it in a condition unfit for use by the original owners. Cadenza is a maddeningly clever and occasionally poetic tale which concerns the identity -in a shifting foreground of misplaced time and mistimed space-of a wantonly Irish character called Desmond...
...Kenya government did indeed keep its promise, at a total cost of ?1,500, but nothing seemed to satisfy Macharia. Found unfit for one job, he huffily turned down another. A beer shop the government helped him to open flopped. Blaming all his troubles on the government, Macharia decided on revenge. In November he signed an affidavit for People's Convention Party Leader Tom Mboya charging that the Kenya government had paid...
...unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically unfit...
...White House was, in fact, beginning to think about the contingency that he might find himself unfit. Gist of the thinking: Dulles would continue as the President's top adviser on foreign policy, and the President would choose a new Secretary from among Dulles' top lieutenants in the department: Acting Secretary Christian Herter, Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Douglas Dillon, or Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs Robert Murphy...
Because Batista acted in a manner unfit for a man, Castro cannot expect the world to accept him now as judge and executioner. The world has had enough of all that one-man brutality. Even in Argentina, where surely there was cause, there was little vengeance...