Word: fecklessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day when other Danish papers printed guest lists of the party, it turned out that Land og Folk had in its haste forgotten to clear the story in the proper place. High up among the feckless "aVisto-crats" who plugged their ears to the revolution's rumble was portly Andrei Plakhin, Soviet Ambassador to Denmark, who came to Marvel's party dressed as an estate manager in Czarist days. Not to be outdone as an escapist, Mine. Plakhin looked fetching as a simple peasant maid...
Acheson coolly responded with the frankest description so far pinned on the U.S.'s wavering, feckless China policy: "Wait until the dust settles." That Mi-cawberism, which Dean Acheson had inherited when he took office, was not enough for Walter Judd. He blamed the U.S. for consistently undermining Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. Acheson countered that the Chiang government was corrupt, that U.S. military supplies inevitably fell to the Communists without a real fight. Then Judd assailed the State Department's long effort to sell China a coalition government. Said Judd: "The Chinese knew then...
...same moment another royal romance went aground-that of Farouk's sister and Farida's childhood playmate, 27-year-old Princess Fawzia with the Shah of Persia. Since the day in 1939 when she was palmed off on an amiable, feckless young prince, whom she had never met, to cement relations between his country and hers, blue-eyed Fawzia's marriage had traveled much the same rocky road as her brother...
Like ants to a honey pot, the feckless of Europe flocked last week to Enghien-les-Bains, just outside Paris. There, in the white casino above the quiet lake, twelve beauties were competing for the title Miss Europe. At the first showing two were missing: bumped by Egyptian royalty from the Cairo-Paris plane, Miss Italy still sat in Rome; Miss Austria just hadn't appeared...
President Picado, a feckless figurehead in a bright red shirt, was cooped up in the red-roofed Casa Presidencial. It was smart, stocky, 39-year-old Manuel Mora, leader of the Communist Vanguardia Popular, who ran things from the Bella Vista fortress. Last week he reached outside the capital and put one of his men in command of a government battalion which was moving against the rebels from coastal Playa Dominical. His forces had control of United Fruit banana plantations on the Pacific Coast, and were burning and looting. When Archbishop Victor Manuel Sanabria crossed the lines to bring...