Word: inept
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...which he served as an enlisted infantryman on the Russian front, Schröder joined the Christian Democrats, at Adenauer's urging campaigned in 1949 for the Düsseldorf seat in the Bundestag that he still holds. As Interior Minister, Schröder was famed for inept statements, most notably his breathless announcement that defecting Counterspy Otto John had been "kidnaped" by the East Germans in 1954. Cracked one nightclub comic: "Schröder has some more good ideas, but he can't spell them out-the wrong moment hasn't come...
...difference between Ivy League and AFL competition is that, while play in the Patriots' circuit is often inept, it is always interesting and always spirited. The Patriots have had their ups and downs this year, but they have kept coming back for more. Now they stand at a pinnacle of sorts: they are tied for first in the AFL's Eastern division--with a 3-3-1 record...
...project, Party Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev glumly confessed that grain production was down for the third successive year and would fall 36% short of plan. Kunaev-whose two predecessors were fired for farm failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain in the course of harvesting." The party secretary of the Kirgiz Republic admitted that lazy farmers had allowed 20% of the arable land to revert to wilderness. Tadzhikistan's party secretary expressed fear that there would be serious failures in cotton deliveries...
...gets past the primary, Nixon must next face Democrat Brown, an inept Governor but a tireless campaigner, whose state party outnumbers the Republicans in registration by more than 1,000,000. Not until private polls told him that he could trounce Brown did Nixon actually decide to run for Governor. But Brown would go down hard. As soon as he heard of Republican Knight's charges against Republican Nixon, Governor Brown picked up the cry: "If Knight's charges are true, it's the most shocking political scandal in the history of the state. If Richard Nixon...
...were hard years financially for the young paper, and matters were not helped by the existence of other struggling journals. In addition to the Advocate, which by 1879 was a weekly like the CRIMSON, the first Harvard daily appeared in that year. The Echo was a rather inept production, and Mother Advocate summed that matter up when it stated: "It is hard to say which has been most acceptable to the Echo's readers, the vulgarity of its first year, in insipidity of its second, or the negligence of its third...