Word: amateurish
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...amateurish way, I conducted a poll of my own," DeGuglielmo said. He estimated that before ordering action, he had talked with about 700 Cambridge housewives, clergy, laborers, undertakers, merchants, educators, and policemen...
...They went in on a moral basis without thinking what political effects their actions would have," says Mark Dyen '70, SDS co-chairman at Harvard. Dyen and most other experienced organizers consider the Resistance, which is primarily campus-based, an admirable effort, but "politically amateurish...
...hostility is compounded, however, by the Peace Corps' own failing in program planning, a weakness correctly noted by Cowan et al. Too often the organization has sponsored projects that were neither needed nor desired by foreign governments, and it continues to rely on an amateurish approach to the analysis of local needs, program planning and resource allocation. These are faults which the Peace Corps shares with many host governments, and remedies must come from both parties...
...saved Florence." But the consul's efforts were quietly heroic in limiting the damage. Aiming at something like Is Paris Burning?, a more exciting account of a threatened city, Author Tutaev, who is a specialist in Russian affairs living in England, sets down what he has unearthed with workaday, amateurish zeal. But the facts are eloquent enough. In 1955, Gerhard Wolf, Nazi, was made an honorary citizen of Florence and cited for "acts of incalculable courage, humanity, sense of brotherhood and Christian feeling...
...bench until the Knicks had built up a 12-point lead over the Detroit Pistons, "so the pressure wouldn't be so great." When No. 24 quickly swished an eight-foot jump shot, the crowd went wild-and kept on cheering, even though Bradley got off some amateurish passes and showed obvious rustiness at the foul line, making only two of six free throws. Next game, against the St. Louis Hawks, Bill looked sharper, sinking eight straight baskets. Then he blew everything in the final seconds with a clumsy jump shot that the Hawks recovered for a score themselves...