Word: unfitting
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...August 1941, Goldwater went on active duty with the Army Air Forces, a feat that took every bit of his selling ingenuity. Although clearly unfit for service -he was overage and had severe astigmatism, in addition to bad knees-Goldwater bluffed his way past the physical exam*. Assigned to Phoenix's Luke Field in a nonflying post, he bummed rides in his spare time, demanded a check-out flight -and got his wings. Later he ferried P-47s across the North Atlantic, saw action in the Mediterranean and C.B.I, theaters, emerged from the war a lieutenant colonel...
Rickover launched them in 1956 and 1958 because he considered the products of U.S. schools illiterate in science and unfit for nuclear sailing. In his own 24-week schools, which already have 2,000 alumni, Rickover hurls college courses at enlisted men and graduate courses at officers with an intensity that is probably unmatched anywhere else...
...come to the American World seeking a 20th century messiah and found only a man with a man's common frailties. Nonetheless, Mencken, as the villainous Brandt, commandeers The Bitter Spring and breathes into it the only life it has. While much of Brandt's talk is unfit for print, it alone bears repeating. The slashing Mencken tone is nostalgically familiar in such comments as: "All the Spaniards have contributed to the world is hemophilia"; ''Thoreau was a Gandhi in a second-hand suit"; "It is downright unfair to take money from the rich...
...held $250,000 worth of stock. A rum-distilling competitor, A. M. Brauer, took the stand to testify that Paiewonsky had once imported Cuban rum and transshipped it to the U.S. mainland falsely labeled as Virgin Islands rum, thereby dodging $1,000,000 in taxes. "He's totally unfit for any position of public trust," concluded Brauer. Answered Paiewonsky: he had indeed bought 5,000 bbl. of Cuban rum, but had never shipped...
...know," said Nik thoughtfully, "perhaps I ought to appoint some Smolensk men. The way things are now, half the government goes off to drown their sorrows every time Novogoro loses, and they're totally unfit for work the next morning...