Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yaleman Cox, 53, has made a lot of money in business (timber, mining), and lost a lot in sports, investing in such dismal properties as New York's inept football Yankees of the early 1940s, Brooklyn's short-lived football Dodgers, and the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, which finished seventh the year he owned it. A few years ago he foolhardily set out to bring big-time soccer to the soccer-resistant U.S., founded the International Soccer League. It has lost money, predictably, but this year's overall attendance, 288,743, was roughly double the 1960 total...
Perhaps as a first step in its plan to make de facto segregation an issue in this fall's school board elections, the NAACP Monday distributed a flier labeling Mrs. Hicks as a "muddling, inept white woman," whose actions could only be regarded with "resentment, intimidation and pity...
...depths of central Ohio the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players are back for their eleventh season on Cape Cod, and weekenders in the general vicinity of the Highfield Theatre, Falmouth, Mass., would be well advised to check them out. As usual their make-up is inept, their chorus movement imprecise, and their fourth encores gratuitous. And, as usual, nobody cares. For under the guiding hand of Prof. W. Hayden Boyers the Oberlin group epitomizes all that which is fresh and lively in college theatre...
...last and out of doors, he is a dear, incompetent bumbler, forever picking a spot in a high wind for a game of cards (the solution: a magnetized playing board and card deck for $10). He is equally inept at the barbecue, getting mixed up about the orders for broiled steaks-for which he needs a $4 branding iron to remind him which should be rare, medium and well done. Making the martinis is also a struggle: to solve the how-much-vermouth problem there are Martini Stones ($3), to be soaked in vermouth, then dropped into each glass...
...folowed by a nondescript procession of lefties, all of them as earnest and inept as the starter. Together they were charged with 14 runs, 12 hits, and six walks. Egloff, the beginner in the series, was also the loser...