Word: unfitness
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...Marseille while his wandering father was in transit from Morocco to Israel, Saadya is one of nine children and a product of a Jerusalem slum called Musrara. He entered the army at 18, spent nearly half his seven months of service in jail, and was finally discharged as unfit. Since then, unable to get a job because of his service record, he has spent his time idling with other Arab-speaking Sephardic youths in Musrara, and he has been picked up by police on suspicion of various crimes...
...into major trouble in 1968, when an international panel of leftist intellectuals assembled by Castro's government awarded Cuba's national poetry prize to Out of the Game, a collection of Padilla's verse that had been banned by the regime as "revolutionarily unfit." One poem suggested that anyone who wanted to get along in the new Communist Cuba should learn...
...slightly in his approach to arterial problems. He questions whether angiography tells a surgeon all that he needs to know and feels that some conditions must be observed more thoroughly to be properly evaluated. As a result, Johnson operates on many patients whom the Cleveland crew would reject as unfit. But Stanford's Dr. Norman Shumway Jr., inventor of the heart-transplant technique, has reservations about his colleagues' methods. He believes that mammary implants, which may take months to improve ventricular circulation, are impractical. Instead he combines bypass grafts with the gas endarterectomies in what his operating team...
...Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, including a general amnesty for those convicted by the CRR and institution of an all-student disciplinary body. We believe this suggestion is still valid. We believe the present trials should stop. The charges should never have been brought; the present CRR is unfit to hear any charges...
FONT submitted weekly reports on his findings in the Ft. Meade barracks and ended his examination with a 106 page report on the housing conditions. The report concluded that the barracks, built as temporary shelters in 1941, were "unfit for human habitation" and an "outrage to common human decency." Font claimed that they contained roaches and rats and that the temperature of the hot water was 38 degrees. Cases of influenza and ringworm were common. Font included 85 statements from enlisted men and officers who complained of poor plumbing facilities, broken windows and holes in the barracks' walls...