Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Village Key. Stunned observers are unable to account for Hoaimy's energy. The answers are not simple and cannot yet be precise. Hoaimy is a singularly cohesive community, and was occupied by a singularly inept Viet Cong detachment. Truong is an exceptionally good district chief who lived and worked alongside the villagers, and the government troops made clear this time that they really meant business...
...CRIMSON'S powerful diamond aggregation last Saturday lifted the lid on its 1964 softball season by applying a heavy coat of shellack on the eager but inept refugees from the offices of the Year-book...
...vote for Wallace in an effort to embarrass the Johnson Administration. But Wisconsin's Reynolds knew better. Said he in a postprimary statement: "All that Mr. Wallace has demonstrated is what we've known all along. We have a lot of people who are prejudiced." Politically inept as that remark may have been, Reynolds had a point. The real issue in the primary was civil rights. Wallace had entered the Wisconsin primary to demonstrate that many Northern, as well as Southern, whites are unhappy about current civil rights trends. And he demonstrated just that -dramatically...
Post-Season Prime. The fastest, roughest basketball of all comes in the post-season games of the N.I.T. and N.C.A.A. championships, whose finals were played off last week. When perennially inept New Mexico suddenly got ept this year and landed in the N.I.T., Albuquerque kicked in $6,000 for a special single-city telecast of its heroes. The New Mexico team smothered N.Y.U., but lost ignominiously (54-86) to the Bradley Braves...
With its crude, inept dramaturgy, The Deputy is no service to playwriting, and as a polemic, it might have been a far finer spur to conscience. Hochhuth affects to attack Pius XII for lacking the power of faith but really attacks him for lacking faith in power...