Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court, Stratton often acted more like a candidate than a potential convict, waving to friends, shaking hands all around, and at one point drawing a rebuke from Judge Hubert L. Will for "grimacing, smiling, gesticulating." Warned Judge Will, in a somewhat inept classical allusion: "I don't want you sitting there like a sphinx, but I don't want you playing Hamlet either." Yet for all the histrionics, the basics of the trial consisted of two questions intimately related to American politics: What constitutes a political contribution? What constitutes a political expense...
...well in their jobs, particularly when their training coincides with the needs of industries in the locality of the college. But Medsker contends that too many junior colleges tend to belittle their middle-track duty of providing a general education for the nontransfer, nontechnical student. Counseling is also often inept. The failure to give this type of student a meaningful broad education is a serious fault, since two-thirds of all students entering junior college profess an intention to continue to a senior college-but only one-third actually...
...worst, and since March 1963 an estimated $1 billion has been smuggled out of the country to safety in Lebanon and Switzerland. With last week's repressive action, the businessmen may soon be in flight after their money, causing a "brain drain" that Syria's ardent but inept socialists can ill afford...
This season the rep company began with its worst fiasco yet, a revival of The Changeling that revealed just how inept the company, as presently assembled, is. For example, Actress Barbara Loden, who seemed to be a remarkable find as Marilyn Monroe in After The Fall, turned out to be embarrassingly like what one would expect Marilyn to have been if she had ever played Dostoevsky, as she was forever hoping to. And with Incident at Vichy-Arthur Miller's new hit-things came full circle. Thus, approximately one year after its opening, Lincoln Center has served as little...
John flunked out of maritime training school, and was bundled off to Pennsylvania to try his hand at business. He proved even more inept than his father. His first investment was in a frontier store in Louisville. On a typical day in the firm's short, unhappy life, Audubon's horse strayed away with a saddlebag full of cash while the proprietor stalked an unfamiliar warbler into the canebrake. Subsequent business ventures in other states and territories also foundered, leaving Audubon briefly in debtor's prison...