Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main cause for worry against the offensively inept Tiger booters was that Princeton's defense might hold Harvard to a scoreless tie, as it held Dartmouth and Rutgers...
...affects the individual American, he pays heavily for transportation inefficiency in other ways. He pays for it in the price of the clothes or the food or the household goods he buys, for it is invariably passed on through the price structure. He pays for lack of planning and inept regulation as his cities become concrete deserts where only autos and auto parks seem to thrive. If he is a businessman, the cost of inefficiency may be high. A 65-m.p.h. train can move steel slabs from the furnaces of Lackawanna, N.Y., and deliver them still hot at an Indiana...
Rolvaag didn't really win the 1962 election; Anderson lost it with a campaign that even he privately admitted was remarkably inept. Anderson had won in 1960 largely because of the votes he picked up in the traditionally Democratic iron ranges in the state's far north. In 1962 Anderson foolishly attacked a northern Minnesota DFL congressman -- John Blatnik -- so sacrosanct that he is running this year without opposition...
...waited two hours for staff members (of whom there appeared to be only three) to talk to them. Those remaining at six o'clock were informed that the interviewers were going home. They were invited to try their luck again the next day. The girl handling the interviews was inept and apparently without experience. She asked only routine questions, already answered on the application forms which she obviously had not read before-hand...
There's an old rule in politics: don't make promises you can't keep. Last week, President Bunting reneged on a promise to 250 Cliffies and proved once again that she's a particularly inept politician...