Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical exemptions some 82 students will apply for the IV-F deferments on the grounds that they are physically unfit to serve. Another 55 students will try to obtain I-Y deferments, usually a psychological exemption...
...poor are not "officially" sick, the rich man's burden is that he spends so much time convincing the draft board that he is unfit for military service that in the end he begins to believe his own put-on. There have been students who have gone through so much to convince their draft boards that they were crazy that in the end indeed they were...
...include Britain, seemed more bent on mischief. De Gaulle's machinations, charged no less an authority than Robert V. Roosa, former U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, began a month ago when the French President caught the scent of approaching trouble for the pound. Hoping to demonstrate that Britain is unfit for Common Market membership, the French began a clandestine campaign to create a sterling crisis by spreading damaging rumors and innuendo, including false reports of loans to Britain. "This," said Roosa, "was a triumph of mischiefmaking, a parade of viciousness...
...lawyer and began pounding his desk. "I need some big-shot attorney who believes in the American flag. I don't want any lawyer. I'm for the public. The public is for me. I'm normal." His outburst made his condition clear. He was declared unfit to stand trial; after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, he was committed to Matteawan State Hospital...
Daphne is a brief encounter between two neurotically maimed misfits. In Act I, they kiss; in Act II, they tell. As the desolate widow of a movie star, Sandy is committing slow alcoholic suicide, shot by shot, and is barred from her young son as an unfit mother. The man (William Daniels) has an even more guilt-ridden tale. In the driveway to his home, he ran over his own child on the boy's fifth birthday, and has been fleeing from the memory ever since...