Word: unfitness
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...Malta could be made "ready for storming" by Stukas alone. The Rome radio said: "British navigation in the Mediterranean may become a practical impossibility. . . . The first definite change for the worse will come when the base of Malta is completely dismantled and the port and airports are made absolutely unfit for service. To achieve this, air activity over Malta will be intensified to such a pitch that no breathing space would be allowed between raids...
...mechanisms through which abnormal responses of the body occur, under conditions of stress, are little known and represent an important research opportunity. In considering the problem of abnormal responses of the body I do not refer to the unfit among us, but rather...
Last week came a distinctly new angle on the forbidding duck-shaped island of the north. Source: 16 unpoetical Canadian soldiers who, after a stint in Iceland, had deteriorated to Class E, unfit for active service (mostly stomach ulcers), and had been repatriated to Canada, accidentally by way of the British Isles...
...show imagination or initiative. Theirs is to get to work at 9 a.m. and quit at 4:30 p.m., like automatons, and to draw their pay until death parts them from the payroll. They are not inspiring Government servants-but they are a lot better than unfit spoilsmen who fill Government offices with ward heelers and live by political preferment...
...full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...