Word: fecklessness
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...page manifesto shrilly criticized the "feckless handling" of the situation in the Horn of Africa, the abandonment of the B-l bomber, the withdrawal of ground troops from South Korea, the 'neverending series of gaffes" in Middle East policy, and the "placating" of militants in southern Africa. Charged the Republicans: "In 15 short months of incoherence, inconsistency and ineptitude, our foreign policy and national security objectives are confused, and we are being challenged around the globe by Soviet arrogance...
...Kojak-bald Moslem, Daoud had been beset by rising unrest. Complaints about climbing prices and feckless administration mounted, and were exploited by an increasingly active Communist movement called Khalq (the masses). Last month, a Communist leader was killed in Kabul, sparking a demonstration by thousands of mourners, who took the occasion to protest the murder and, for some reason, to shout anti-American slogans. The subsequent arrest of half a dozen leftist leaders may have triggered the coup...
...officially designated an "obscene child." His mother Rachel was evidently something of a slut; before taking up with Hamilton's father, she served time in jail on St. Croix for committing adultery-"whoring with everyone," said her husband's complaint in court. Hamilton's father, a feckless romantic and bankrupt merchant, eventually deserted Rachel and their two children-or perhaps, as Flexner thinks, was himself abandoned by Rachel. When Rachel died in 1768, Alexander Hamilton was a child of eleven, virtually alone in the world...
...blowing through his nervous system, a kind of ElectraGlide strut. "Dy-no-mite!" goes J.J., to convulse the audience in the way that something like "Feets, do your stuff!" got to them three decades ago. Then there is the character Ray Ellis in Baby, I'm Back: a feckless black creep who deserted his wife and two children seven years ago, one step ahead of his bookie's enforcers, and has now reappeared to make excuses and bed room eyes at the wife. Ellis and the show's writers make much merriment at the expense...
...Since they both copy the star's own hysterical acting style, they fade quickly into the chaotic background. Wilder's performance is just a broader version of the routine he invented a decade ago in The Producers. His one big scene with Richard Pryor in the otherwise feckless Silver Streak is funnier than all 90 minutes of his mugging here...