Word: feckless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was certainly nothing irresolute in the way the Greek junta put down King Constantine's feckless attempt at a countercoup. When it comes to less pressing matters, however, the junta is subject to rule by committee- with all the divisions, hesitations and compromises that that implies. The shadowy power behind the top three leaders is the Revolutionary Committee, composed of 38 young officers who pass on most of the government's decisions. Because this council is divided into moderate and hard-line factions, the junta last week seemed to be somewhat uncertain and confused about just what...
...plot that launched a thousand westerns starts with the town's God, fearing merchants up to their sleeve garters in fear and frustration. The black hats are many and merciless, the lawmen feckless and few. The community antes up for its own gunmen, and the action begins. Now, in real life and modern dress, the city of Houston is playing out the old melodrama...
There is no doubt as to the preferences of a great many very contented people in this country. It would be to have two great conservative parties between which it might be possible to choose at random. And it would be to have liberalism as feckless, irrelevant and intellectually obsolete as Time in its more thoughtful moments regularly proclaims it to be. We shall continue to disappoint their words. And the Democratic Party will be either a liberal party or -- as Harry Truman rightly observed -- it will be a losing party. And while Democrats, from time to time, will unquestionably...
...film's most serious failure lies with the director, who also played the star. The reckless, feckless knight who personifies the pragmatic common man, a cross between barfly and gadfly, is one of Shakespeare's most captivating creatures. Falstaff's dark side is delineated believably and well by Welles, who frosts the screen with the chill of death when he stands shunned by his former companion, Prince Hal, become King Henry V. But the tragic moment of repudiation lacks substance and significance because the Prince and Falstaff have never been Shakespeare's "sworn brothers...
Being Secretary of Commerce has always been a feckless job. After two years in the post, John T. Connor did something about it. He argued that his own job should be abolished...