Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That noisy display was unfit for television. I think teen-agers were even embarrassed at the zoolike display of Murray the K and some of those other spacelike beings. I doubt if this is going to create any economic opportunity for teenagers. It seems unbelievable that the Johnson Administration permitted itself to be associated with this catastrophe...
...riot. It started innocently enough one May evening with a water fight on Plympton St. A crowd gathered, and by midnight some 2500 students had packed the Square. The rioters strained the patience of the Cambridge police by disconnecting the power lines of three trolleys, thus rendering them unfit to carry passengers. Finally the police used tear gas, a tactic they were not to repeat for 25 years. The Square emptied, but 1500 diehards made their way to Radcliffe, where they spent the remainder of the night yelling, cavorting, and milling around...
...office safe, McCormack reminded the House, was a written agreement between himself and Johnson that outlined McCormack's responsibilities if Johnson became disabled. That agreement, he said, was not only "outside the law," but valueless as well, since "I could never have made the decision" to declare Johnson unfit. Added McCormack: "There are so many human considerations involved. For example, my motives might well be impugned. Also, there could be the feeling that I might be involved in a quest for personal power...
...ironies did not end with cession. Russia was kept waiting 15 months for its money while the U.S. House of Representatives-informed by the Foreign Affairs Committee that Alaska's bountiful resources were worthless and the land itself "unfit for civilized men"-overcame its feeling that the price was excessive. Instead of the full rights of citizenship promised by the U.S., the Russians in Alaska got military occupation by U.S. troops, who looted their churches and raped their women. For the next 17 years, Alaska was operated as a U.S. customs district, without government or laws. By then...
Chief Justice Gibson pressed for a state constitutional amendment that would give the California Supreme Court full power to remove unfit judges at every level, including its own. The state legislature and California voters overwhelmingly approved such an amendment in 1960. The bench-dominated body that has been set up to do the high court's investigating work is a nine-member Commission on Judicial Qualifications-five judges, two lawyers and two laymen. The commission operates out of San Francisco under Executive Secretary Jack E. Frankel, an able, tactful lawyer...