Word: unfitness
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...Evans Hughes sat statuesquely for 45 minutes before intoning: "And now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." When Britain's wartime bomber chief, Lord Portal, appeared direct from the barber's chair, Karsh suggested they wait two weeks because a new haircut "automatically makes a photograph unfit for publication...
...U.S.S.R., in coal mines, lumber camps, vineyards, construction camps and factories, from Manchuria to the Urals, they labored for the glory of the new five-year plan. Shortly before the elections in Germany's Russian zone, Moscow released 120,000, but most of these were sickly, unskilled, or unfit for work. They made poor propaganda. "I wish he had never come back," said one wife; "month after month I have been waiting and now he sits there, staring at nothing, like a ghost." Last week the first of Russia's Japanese captives began to trickle home. The Russians...
...Directed commanders to screen all rosters and eliminate as surplus all non-volunteers deemed to be unfit for their assigned duties, and those who have shown "ineptitude for military service...
...other was strictly home town hocuspocus. Trujillo had created it on paper and manned it with his stooges while he waited for the real Communists to show up. Anyway, he would keep the bogus party alive, just in case some of the real actors should prove unfit for their roles in the Dominican puppet theaters...
Eight Balls. Dr. Claude Uhler of Dallas spent most of the war attached to an outfit of "eight balls," chronic misfits who had sifted down to the unexacting job of guard at a P.W. camp in the U.S. Thirty percent of them should have been discharged as unfit for any kind of duty, wrote Uhler in the A.M.A. Journal. They were kept in service by the Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase. Results: "More than one-half million misfits carried along for an indefinite period...