Word: unfitness
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...what's been done to it. And you have to come home and live knowing you didn't have the guts to say it was wrong. A lot of guys had the guts. They got sectioned out, and on the discharge, it was put that they were unfit for military duty-unfit because they had the courage. Guys like me were fit because we condoned it, we rationalized...
...palaces of Washington, D.C., mountains of microfilm have been tirelessly assembled by diligent bureaucrats, who build with a blind devotion worthy of the men who once erected the Pyramids. Unfortunately, the monumental results of their labors are largely hidden from public view and sometimes labeled "Secret" or "Top secret" -unfit for most mortal eyes...
...Frost. Yet he was also a thoroughgoing Fascist during the '30s and early '40s, pro-German and antiSemitic, a broadcaster of propaganda for Mussolini. At the end of World War II, he was arrested by the American Army and incarcerated in a Washington insane asylum as mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. He was released in 1958. Last May, Pound was nominated for the $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal by the literary commit tee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The nomination was rejected by a vote of the governing council. The academy president, Physics...
...made the difference between starvation and survival for millions of people. Yet a drawback to the new high-yield plants is that they require large quantities of expensive nitrogen-rich fertilizers that drain into ponds and lakes. There, the fertilizers cause explosive growth of algae and make the water unfit for drinking and other uses...
...care and education of the mentally retarded comes to more than $6 billion, a figure that is both large and inadequate. The social price is even higher. Because society has provided few alternatives, some 200,000 victims pass their lives in institutions that for the most part are unfit for humans. Many of the rest exist in a twilight world that they can understand dimly, if at all, casualties of indifference and lost opportunities...