Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Oppenheimer, in his letter answering Nichols: "Though of course I would have no desire to retain an advisory position if my advice were not needed, I cannot . . . accept the suggestion that I am unfit for public service." He flatly denied that he had lobbied against the H-bomb after the Truman order, or that he had ever given any secret information to unauthorized persons...
...years ago James B. Conant found himself criticized severely for his lack of faith in the economic potentialities of unclear energy. It was then held in congressional circles that a scientist so gloomy as to envisage the abandonment of all unclear power station experiments by 1970, was probably unfit to help shape the policies...
...Sears' public statement to Griswold last year, he made no mention of any scholarship fund, and charged that the Lubells have "proven themselves unfit for admission to the bar of any of our states and, of course, unfit to continue as students at the Harvard Law School. They have, it seems to me, clearly disqualified themselves from further membership in your student body...
...selected. In the years that followed, students packed the galleries to learn James Otis' lesson in revolution; and when revolution came, Holden again played its part. Colonial troops flooded into Cambridge, 160 of them squeezing into the tiny Chapel. When they finally rolled out, Holden was almost unfit...
...enough to test the mettle of any normally sedentary thinker. With black coffee and pleasant sophistry his reward, the scholar risked the crossing each day, sharpening his senses and developing trim reflexes. The Jungle ruled in Mass. Ave., and the Harvard man either emerged its master or, found unfit, was sent reeling, to eke out his $30 stay at Stillman...