Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, he sang the praises of the hand-picked "Mutual Help" Assembly with which he has replaced Indonesia's former elected Parliament and glowed over the new National Front, a "nonpolitical" movement consisting of Sukarno's own Nationalist Party, the inept Moslem Teacher's Party and the dazed Communists, who find Sukarno even more disruptive than they are. The National Front, Sukarno predicted, would always reach unanimous agreement on everything "without taking votes." Then, as a lesson to those who still thought there might be something in voting, he abruptly announced a ban against two of Indonesia...
...play is, except for The Comedy of Errors, the shortest in the entire canon. The second is the lack-luster playing of the king and his companions (save Richard Waring's well-spoken Antonio), of whom Loring Smith's Alonzo and O. Z. Whitehead's Sebastian are embarrassingly inept. Still, the show is a striking success for William Ball in his directorial debut for the Festival...
...There was widespread admiration through the free world for Dwight Eisenhower's dignified rebuff of Khrushchev's wild demands, but a concern-not confined to the U.S.-that Washington's handling of the U-2 affair had been clumsy and inept...
...opposition Socialist Party seized on the issue to stall parliamentary ratification of Premier Nobusuke Kishi's new security pact with the U.S. With near-hysteria, London's Daily Herald called the U.S. a "summit saboteur," and the Daily Mail angrily described Eisenhower as "a tumbled titan . . . with inept hands...
...that is the import of these five questions, 'the separation of Church and State' is indeed in very serious trouble, not so much from the Roman Catholic hierarchy with its inept political maneuvers, but from the priests and prophets of the new idolatry...