Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputation got him the chairmanship of the National Republican Committee, and he did a diligent job, traveling some 150,000 miles, delivering nearly 600 speeches, appearing on national television more than 100 times, and jabbing at the Democrats every inch of the way. He has called Adlai Stevenson "completely inept," castigated Averell Harriman as the man "who loused up Laos," described Pierre Salinger as "the thinking man's filter...
...foreign policy of the federal government is my policy," said Erhard. "I am the one who carries the final responsibility. I can't give it up, and I won't give it up. And let's be quite candid. It is inept of the all too clever people when they say, 'We must go easy on Erhard, we need him for the 1965 elections.' Ladies and gentlemen, I am telling you here and now that this is a gross deception. I make policy for Germany and not for the elections...
Athan Agnos's inept translation and Kalman Burnim's erratic direction of his largely amateurish cast, serve only to emphasize the weaknesses of the play...
Seven daring but inept Tokyo thugs planned a kidnaping that would rock the nation. Their intended victim: Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, the former Princess Suga. She was to be held for $138,888, the biggest ransom in Japanese history. Disguised as a meter reader, one plotter entered and cased the princess' house. The gang moved in for the snatch three times, only to have something go awry. Before they could make a fourth try, the police were tipped off and collared the gang, building an airtight case with full confessions. Yet last spring the accused were convicted...
Ironically, Tshombe came home on invitation of his onetime archenemy, Premier Cyrille Adoula, whose government now needs all the help it can get. Adoula's inept 35,000-man army has proved itself incapable of suppressing Communist-encouraged rebellions that already engulf three provinces and are spreading even farther. To many, it seemed that his only hope was reconciliation with the dissident elements that rack the land. Adoula apparently agreed, however reluctantly. As a trial balloon, he permitted his secretary-general to call openly for the liberation of long-imprisoned Leftist Antoine Gizenga, and amnesty for Rightist Albert Kalonji...