Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prisoner of Freedom. Caught with his flak outfit in the Stalingrad encirclement, Strauss escaped but suffered frostbite so severe in both feet that he was declared unfit for combat. Ending the war as a lieutenant and an instructor at a flak school in southern Bavaria, Strauss was taken prisoner by the U.S. Third Army. It was the break of his life. The Americans made Strauss an interpreter. Then, finding that he was untainted by Nazi ties, they gave him a local-government job. Under American supervision, a new Catholic party was being formed in Bavaria. Joining forces with those...
Last spring in Bermuda, seven Crimson team members caused about $2,000 damage to the two houses in which they stayed. In view of this conduct, the committee ruled that the club was unfit represent the University and imposed...
While the club was in Bermuda last spring, seven team members were blamed for about $2,000 in damage done to the two houses in which they stayed. In view of this ungentlemanly conduct, the Faculty committee has labeled the club unfit to represent the University. The Administration's position is understandable, but it should not take the form of throwing out the whole barrel because of a few bad apples...
...years Gable floated among minor theatrical jobs, then caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. There was just one problem-those ears. Milton Berle would later describe them as "the best ears of our lives," but Warner Bros, had already decided that they made young Gable unfit for the screen. M-G-M simply pinned back the Gable flappers with adhesive tape, and cast him in The Painted Desert. As Gable rose toward his coronation as The King-a ceremony actually performed in 1937 by Spencer Tracy with a cardboard crown-he shed the tape...
...same committee that removed the Harvard hockey team from consideration for the NCAA tournament last year concluded that the rugby team was unfit to represent the University because of what happened last spring in Bermuda. On that trip several Harvard team members were blamed for about $2,000 in damage to the two houses in which they stayed...