Word: inept
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forces themselves, revealing at least part of the U.S. command as grossly careless and inept...
While the expulsion of Dean Burch from the position of National Chairman would be a dramatic symbol of Goldwater's total defeat, Republicans should not concentrate their rehabilitation efforts on petty personal conflicts and impulsive Nixonian pronouncements. Burch's inept campaign has probably incurred the wrath of responsibly conservative Republicans; he may lose a vote of confidence at the January National Committee meeting, even with only a minimum of effort by anti-Goldwater tacticians...
...long run, the Goldwater defeat may be the shock that revives this party which has for more than 30 years provided few moments of leadership and even fewer leaders. For now, however, the GOP's task seems herculean. In the 1950's the party made an inept attempt at becoming a majority party. In the 1960's it must do something far more basic: reassert itself as an effective minority party...
...Lions were the doormat of the Ivy League season last year with an 0-6-1 record, and lost most of their lettermen from that inept eleven. The only experienced players on the 1964 roster are All-Ivy halfback Steve Robinson and right wing Waldemar Schulz. In the team's first two games of the season Schulz broke the fibula in his right leg and Robinson dislocated a shoulder. (He has continued to play despite this handicap...
...hands-across-the-trenches interlude in which German and British troops put down their guns and exchange presents on the war's first Christmas day.* Victor Spinetti, a marvelously adroit actor in a wonderfully adroit cast, contributes the show's stopper as an English sergeant blasting out inept recruits in hilarious British doubletalk...