Word: inept
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Defensively the Crimson infield was as tight as a prepple in the Biltmore bar. Tall first baseman Phil Bernstein committed Harvard's only error, while the inept Maroons booted five...
...defeat of the Administration's Urban Affairs proposal reflects not only inept politics, but also the revolt of the voters against more and bigger Government. We're just damned tired of attempts by the Executive to control everything from Washington; we Hoosiers think Kennedy is power mad and that he and his Administration are a genuine danger to our country...
...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Late in 1960, when Koirala pushed through legislation subjecting landlords to a property tax and expropriating large estates for the benefit of Nepal's millions of landless peasants, King Mahendra abruptly dissolved Parliament, jailed Koirala and as many of his Cabinet ministers as the inept Nepali police could lay hands on. After suppressing the nation's 15 political parties, the King has ruled through an appointed six-man Cabinet headed by brash young Foreign and Home Minister Tulsi Giri, 34. The King also developed his own system of "guided democracy'' based...
...that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix on its cover...
...used only if "absolutely necessary.'' The government's aim is to keep out what one critic of the bill called ''black Irish" immigrants: West Indians who try to enter the country via Ireland. Defending the bill, Home Secretary "Rab" Butler stumbled through an inept speech...