Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCoy called Ocean Hill-Brownsville a corrupt district. "Many of the teachers we removed were unfit. We didn't want them because they didn't think our kids were capable of learning," he said...
...connections. (See Jared Israel's "Free Speech at Harvard" in the Progressive Labor Boston News, Fall, 1968, reprinted in the second issue of The Old Mole.) This policy was reaffirmed by Pusey before the SFAC last Spring--though his statement that a member of a communist party would be unfit to serve on the Faculty eluded the CRIMSON.Hutch Jenness...
Illness: Because you are sickly, you rarely attend school. Around the house you're always underfoot; they give you a drum kit to keep busy. As a consequence of your obession with drums you are unfit for useful work. It looks like you're going to be a ne'er-do-well, so you get together with some other kids who are also ne'er-do-wells and form a rock group. At your first recording session another group asks you to be their drummer. You join them; change your name to Ringo; and escape oblivion for fame and influence...
...well as black, to big-city slums. While he is appallingly insensitive and callous, few can deny Agnew's personal decency and quiet sense of humor. Most independent observers agree that the New York Times made much out of little in charging that his Maryland financial dealings made him unfit for the Vice-Presidency. And despite his harsh indictments of black rioters and looters, his record on race relations has in general been sensible...
...that the nation's capital has long needed a public institution of higher education is to understate the obvious. Before FCC, the only place that many D.C. high school graduates could attend was D.C. Teachers College, which has been dismally unfit for the task, recently running into accreditation problems. Eventually it will be taken over...