Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born to a well-to-do family, Mengele received degrees in medicine and anthropology before arriving in 1943 to work as an SS doctor at Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death camps. As cattle cars of Jewish captives arrived, he committed the "unfit" to the gas chambers and chose others for his experiments. He injected serum into children's eyes in an effort to change their color and killed victims with drugs in order to perform autopsies on them. His special interest, however, was in twins and dwarfs. When Mengele found seven dwarfs among her Hungarian theater family, Elizabeth...
...into a stupor under such pressure." Like Shula a pup out of Paul Brown, Walsh had heard tell of a crisp pep talk delivered by the Cleveland Browns coach on opening day of 1950, when the survivors of the disbanded All-America Football Conference were being called amateurs unfit to share a field with the great N.F.L. champion Philadelphia Eagles. "Just think," Brown said drily, "in a minute you'll get to touch Steve Van Buren." Cleveland 35, Philadelphia...
...debate, then made light of the gaffe, apparently in the belief that it would add macho to his preppie image. All this led Columnist Joseph Kraft, who has admired Bush, to write, "Unless the real George stands up, the general impression will be of a foolish fellow unfit to be President...
Reagan whose performance in the first Presidential debate raised doubts that his age might impede his future performance in office, gave few signs that he is unfit, though he appeared to be suffering from a cold and his voice became less resonant near the end of the prepared speech...
Noting that Jackson had claimed to be waging a moral crusade, Jewish leaders turned the morality issue against him. If Jackson did not disavow Farrakhan, they argued, then Walter Mondale should reject Jackson as unfit for any role in the party's political campaign. Caught in the controversy, Mondale faced the delicate task of trying to maintain Jewish support without alienating Jackson and his millions of black supporters...