Word: fecklessly
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...balance of payments and a step toward warmer relations between East and West. For all its genuine long-term benefits, however, the largest two-nation grain deal in history has produced a bumper crop of trouble. Now, as public discontent grows over rising food prices, the Administration's feckless handling of the transaction is being widely condemned...
...staff. In my opinion, he made a mistake in encouraging pranks. However, this has occurred in my campaigns in the past and had no effect there. I am sure these pranks have had no effects here." That notion seemed to depict the President as a past victim of feckless capers. In any event, Ehrlichman hastily opposed the idea...
...Oberon is always being consulted on such questions as "How do you feel about love?" "Have you ever made love without love?" - and is in turn forever dispensing bits of Mary Worth wisdom like "We're all caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around a lot of picturesque locations - Yucatan, in this case. The antique splendors of Chichen Itza make the passions of Interval seem petty indeed, but so would a brisk...
Behind Paul's reminiscences of an unhappy childhood lies the Brando who grew up as a restless, competitive child in Libertyville, Ill., the son of a remote father and a feckless mother. Paul tells Jeanne at one point: "My father was a drunk, a screwed-up bar fighter. My mother was also a drunk. My memories as a kid are of her being arrested. We lived in a small town, a farming community. I used to have to milk a cow every morning and every night, and I liked that. But I remember one time I was all dressed...
Gardner's landlocked mariner is named Fred Clumly. Clumly is the police chief of Batavia, a small (and real) town in the western tip of New York. Clumly glumly delivers speeches on the topic Law and Order. He uses words like cognizant a lot and figures hippies are feckless or degenerate, or both. The state of California he considers a plague area likely to infect the rest of America. In short, given the temper of the times, Clumly seems bound for a caricature pig-of-the-week award, or else a New Centurion's badge for meritorious service...