Word: inept
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...little questions within the big question-Did he really conceive and carry out the assassination of King alone?-would loom large once more. Where did this inept criminal get the money to finance his year of flight, from April 23, 1967, when he broke out of the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, through the slaying of King and Ray's arrest at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968? Where did he pick up the savvy to adopt four clever aliases in Canada during that flight and then acquire a passport to travel to London...
...instead of a he is amusing to play with. And if the first woman had gone by description alone, she might, like Ravenal's Eve, have assumed that the forbidden fruit was a cranberry and have served up apple pies with innocent impunity. Adam proves to be inept at naming the animals, and the simian creature that he dibs "flounder" has to be fended off with a barbed wire fence. Instead of Satan, SIN features a lithe delinquent called Ssss, who is bad in a soulful rather than a derogatory way. When man's ancestor decides that a maid...
Harvard's predominance quickly and permanently vanished in the fourth frame, despite inept fielding by the Brandeis squad. Shortstop Mark Bonauito, leadoff man for the Judges, cracked the first of his two home runs of the afternoon to even up the score...
...federal agencies regulating business and consumer affairs, none is more regularly or vehemently denounced than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Critics have variously blasted it as arbitrary, ill-organized, arrogant, inbred and inept. There is a reason for the scourging: the FDA affects both consumers and manufacturers where they are most sensitive-in the products that they can buy or sell. The agency regulates everything from lipstick to kidney dialysis machines. All told, the FDA activity touches on 200 of every consumer dollar spent. Says an agency public relations man proudly: "The FDA intrudes on your life...
Luckily, for Boston sports fans, the RedSox are going to be on the road this weekend trying to extend their losing streak. Diehard fans can rejoice in the knowledge that the Yankees are equally inept and that the Toronto Blue Jays are going to take the American League pennant this year...