Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French and Spanish navies were rotten to their garboard strakes, Pope makes clear that the British was rotten to its keelson. Its ships were badly designed and badly built. Crews were made up largely of pressed men, recruited by a system of legalized kidnaping. They were fed swill unfit for swine, and discipline was inhumanly savage by today's standards. But long years of keeping the sea, often for 18 months without making port, made them magnificent seamen. Something else, which Pope finds hard to define, made them patriots. And Admiral...
...week's end Truman added Jack Kennedy to his unfit list, said, "The Republican newspapers" want to nominate Kennedy or Stevenson, "but our party is going to nominate someone who can win." Other Truman political pronouncements: "This draft business is hooey. There never was a man drafted for President in the history of the country. A draft is created by the fellow who wants it and is willing to fight for it." On primaries: "I hope that people have had a bellyfull of these primaries. They are outrageously expensive and exhausting...
...General Ralph W. Zwicker, 57, one of those people fated to remain famous for a peripheral incident in life (he successfully defied Joe McCarthy's badgering question: "Who promoted Peress?"), will soon retire after 33 years in the uniform McCarthy said (quite wrongly, of course) that he was "unfit to wear." Since the McCarthy demagoguery, Zwicker won a second star, served as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in the Far East, is now commander of the Ohio-based XX Army Corps...