Word: inept
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...McCabe--83 yards on 20 carries, one TD--and McGugan tandem looked especially sharp in contrast to the inept Columbia backs. Although tailback Tom Norton rushed for a respectable 70 yards on 19 carries, his hapless mates combined for -9 yards to bring the Lions' total to 61 overall...
...DEMOCRATIC legislators' submissiveness can in part be explained away as shrewd politicking, the people have no such excuse for the credulence and deference they continue to grant to their charismatic but inept President. After these many months of near-depression, and long after David Stockman's public admission that the President's "economic recovery program" was merely a blind and cyncial "Trojan Horse" to sell upward redistribution of income and wealth to the masses, those masses continue to believe that miracles will result from swallowing this bitter potion...
Knowing Nixon's fascination with other people of power, like Mao Tse-tung, Kissinger stocked up on personal information about world leaders. He also supplied stories about the Ivy League, both good and bad, which the boss relished. Muskie twitted Carter about his inept fly casting but praised him for superb fly tying. Rusk bent to Kennedy's appetite for humor. Ordered to track down and fire a leaker, Rusk traced the culprit to the Oval Office. "I can't fire him, Mr. President," phoned Rusk. "It's you." They both roared...
...ostrich disappeared from history, but the owner, the renowned yachtsman and orator Ted Turner, stayed in view. In a gallant gesture, intended to divert the attention of paying customers from the inept foolery of his athletes, he challenged Tug McGraw of the Philadelphia Phillies to a match race in which each of them would push a baseball around the bases with his nose. Turner won, though he lost a good deal of skin from his face when he skidded in the dirt...
Rader, who like Huebschen is married, denied any affair. Rather, she claimed, it was he who pestered her-unsuccessfully-for dates. Rader said she demoted Huebschen in 1979 because he was an inept supervisor. Yet just three months earlier she had praised his work in a written critique, and a month before that she had recommended him for a pay raise...