Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Capitalist Magic. The crowd outside the castle faced Novotny in grim silence - and with good reason. Under Novotny's inflexible, inept rule, potentially rich Czechoslovakia has suffered a continuous economic crisis. Industrial production has fallen, productivity has stagnated, and last week the official news agency blandly conceded that Czechoslovakia would be compelled to buy 2,200,000 tons of grain abroad be cause of a disastrous domestic harvest...
forces themselves, revealing at least part of the U.S. command as grossly careless and inept...
...less successful were the Argentine generals who ousted Arturo Frondizi in 1962 only to compound their country's problems and transfer the mess to a weak President Arturo Illia. In the Dominican Republic, the military overthrew the inept Juan Bosch, then turned over power to a triply inept civilian triumvirate. And in Honduras, the army officers who toppled President Ramon Villeda Morales last year are slowly running the country's faltering economy into the ground...
While the expulsion of Dean Burch from the position of National Chairman would be a dramatic symbol of Goldwater's total defeat, Republicans should not concentrate their rehabilitation efforts on petty personal conflicts and impulsive Nixonian pronouncements. Burch's inept campaign has probably incurred the wrath of responsibly conservative Republicans; he may lose a vote of confidence at the January National Committee meeting, even with only a minimum of effort by anti-Goldwater tacticians...
...long run, the Goldwater defeat may be the shock that revives this party which has for more than 30 years provided few moments of leadership and even fewer leaders. For now, however, the GOP's task seems herculean. In the 1950's the party made an inept attempt at becoming a majority party. In the 1960's it must do something far more basic: reassert itself as an effective minority party...