Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty percent of U.S. farmers are unfit for their jobs because they hate their animals and hate the soil, Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield said in Kansas City. "A farmer to succeed needs to be part businessman, part specialist and part scientist." In Rome, Renzo Rossellini pooh-poohed reports printed by a Communist magazine that his brother, Director Roberto Rossellini, would renounce all his U.S. earnings from the picture Stromboli "for reasons of artistic dignity...
...Crimson speakers took the stand that a Communist by definition has closed his mind to all but one economic and political philosophy. A man who does not have an open mind, they argued, is unfit to teach. The judges gave the local team the edge...
...since then a hodgepodge of other schools had mushroomed about the original system. For the most part, the children of laborers and farmers rarely got as far as the lycees. Those who did, some Frenchmen began to think, received such an overintellectualized brand of instruction that they emerged unfit for the day-today lives that most of them would lead...
Practically no one denies the government's right to lock America's doors against undesirable, unfit, or dangerous aliens. But who is undesirable? Is Emmanuel, whose position as an artist convinced two American colleges that he would be good for their students, undesirable...
...Cells. The gentlemen in Le Monde's offices printed the letter in full and sent a reporter to investigate the letter writer's story. Jean Duval,* the reporter found, was an enrolled Communist. He had been a plumber, but World War I injuries had made him unfit for his trade, and he had gone to work as an unskilled laborer. During the Nazi invasion in World War II he fled Paris, lost all his belongings. Because of bureaucratic technicalities he received none of the allotments for war victims. Le Monde's reporter described Duval's home...