Word: unfitness
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...smack the bejeezus out of a ball--that's the guy for us. Like most great things American, the home run deconstructs strategy with a beautiful act of aggression. So Mark McGwire, 250 lbs. of muscle in a game full of the fat and unfit, doesn't really shock when he sends the ball more than 500 ft. And Ken Griffey Jr., hat backwards, grin cocksure, seems almost bored as he gently taps homers over the fence. The crowd expects it, the crowd gets it, and the crowd goes home happy. We delight in the obvious. Give...
...infamous daisy ad, in which a cute little girl pulled petals off a flower until the eruption of a mushroom cloud broke her reverie, was only one example. Fact magazine came out with a 64-page "psychological study," purportedly a survey of professional shrinks, that showed Goldwater was "psychologically unfit" to be President. The candidate's slogan, "In your heart, you know he's right," was transformed into a snicker: "In your guts, you know he's nuts...
Wrong presumption. Within four months, Hale had allegedly blackmailed Carpino, a civilian, into having a sexual relationship with him. Then, when both her marriage and the affair began to break up, Hale switched allegiance and offered to testify in the divorce case that she was an unfit mother. Yet when Pentagon officials found out about his alleged manipulations, he got away clean. Instead of facing retribution, the two-star general was allowed to retire quietly. His getaway so infuriated the Army colonel and his ex-wife that they have formed a temporary alliance and are going public with their accusations...
Carpino said she vowed then to get even, and the two began waging war on each other. Carpino's ex-husband remembers Hale's calling him to say he would help him gain custody of his son. When the colonel explained he needed to demonstrate Carpino was an unfit mother, the general allegedly offered to testify in court to that effect...
...daughters declined comment but appeared in court with their father. Kurth condemned Fagan for living an "incredible charade." At the time of the divorce, he had accused her of being an alcoholic and an unfit mother (her lawyer denies both charges). She accused him of involvement in unspecified fraud, and she got custody...