Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sell justice!" Then he proceeded to astonish his colleagues with direct, personal attacks on the leaders of his own party in the House, wound up with a withering slap at Speaker John McCormack. "I have sat under ten Speakers," roared Cannon. "I have never seen such biased and inept leadership...
...grasping banker, and it is an immutable law that prostitutes' hearts are warm. But let a novelist introduce a wretch whose vice is writing novels, and there begins a recital of character faults that would have horrified Caligula: the fellow is meanspirited, lazy, a coward, lustful but inept at sex. soggy with drink, cruel to his children, and two months behind on the phone bill...
...Monroe Doctrine is still alive. "That's why we have cut off our trade," he said, "and that's why we work in the OAS and in other ways to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba." Gaining Their Chains. Cuba was obviously feeling the economic squeeze of inept Communist management. Castro last week froze wages, invoked stringent penalties for absenteeism. The $293 million in the treasury when Castro took over has now shrunk to $5,000,000 in foreign exchange. Looking for help, Economic Czar Ernesto (Che) Guevara was dispatched in a hurry to huddle with Soviet Premier...
...seated, Justice Cooper stood and defended his record as chief justice of New York City's court of special sessions from 1951 to 1960, when he resigned because of the mental strain of the job. Cooper described a judicial nightmare of overcrowded dockets, inadequate facilities and inept assistants that forced him to adopt a rigorous code of courtroom conduct...
...comedy interpolations in the South Shore production often prove humorous and tasteful, such as jailhouse monologue of Frosch, played broadly but brilliantly by Bernie West. Adele's embarrassingly inept behavior at the ball justifies itself by her status. But the folksy, hail-fellow-well met lyrics of Howard Dietz have no business being used in any production of Die Fledermaus which attempts to capture the flavor of the original or to offer any amount of the necessary stylization...