Word: feckless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bleakest Lower East Side, earned his tuition through the College of the City of New York and plunged into Brooklyn ward politics, his entree to a 20-year city hall career. A canny, candid financial expert, Beame spoke with authority in condemning longtime Boss Bob Wagner's feckless financing practices, thus shrewdly disassociated himself from the tired Democratic regime of which he was a part...
...pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The Alianza has made considerable progress in developing economies, while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei won an overwhelming victory; Mexico continues its boom under the able Gustavo Diaz Ordaz; and long-turbulent Peru is enjoying a rare peace and prosperity under Fernando Belaunde Terry (TIME cover...
...this is changing fast under President Gaylord P. Harnwell, a high-energy physicist of national renown. When he succeeded the feckless Harold Stassen in 1953, Harnwell launched a fiveyear, $750,000 self-study, the most exhaustive ever attempted by a U.S. university. As a result of the study-and, as one dean puts it, of the fact that "the right people died"-Penn has been reborn...
After the long emotional excitement of the fight for independence, Ireland in the postwar years seemed to be hibernating, caught in a descending spiral of cynicism and feckless nostalgia. Its malaise was expressed by Playwright Sean O'Casey: "Someone or something is ruining us. What do we send out to the world now but woeful things-young lads and lassies, porther, greyhounds, sweep tickets, and the shamrock green? We've scatthered ourselves over the wide world, and left our own sweet land thin. We're just standing on our knees now." Bloody Baluba. Today the Irish...
Thirty-one years ago, when California's Richfield Oil Co. collapsed from reckless overexpansion and feckless management, giants scrambled for the pieces. Among the contenders was the late Harry Ford Sinclair, who hustled in from the east in his company Fokker to announce: "Gentlemen, I am in California and I am in to stay...