Word: inept
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...minstrels began trudging, two champions of the downtrodden appeared, neither one a folk singer: Harold Humes, a 35-year-old writer who is good at writing novels (The Underground City) and miserably inept at ingratiating himself with police; and John Mitchell, a coffeehouse proprietor currently protesting one of Manhattan's customary coffeehouse operating expenses, the police shakedown. (Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm admitted last week that "we have an uneasy hunch that some cops take money.") Humes and Mitchell spoke loudly about free speech, the sorry behavior of police officers, and the logical theory that Village real estate...
Though they still have enough weapons and ammunition, the Escambray rebels are running low on food and clothing. The airdrops-now stepped up to two a week -have become the Escambray's last lifeline. But life is tough for the militia, too. Notoriously inept at logistics, Fidel was barely managing to provide his own men with one meal...
...Laos, whose soldiers are even more inept (but less savage) than the Congo's but whose politicians have better manners, the U.S. was also helplessly talking of "neutralization...
Raisins & Wine. Portugal has not been the same since. Salazar's hard-working if often inept secret police keep stumbling on plots and conspiracies. In 1959 they thwarted a coup with the unlikely name of "Operation Cocktail" and rounded up 31 suspects, including nine army officers, a Catholic priest and several professional men. Last year the police pounced on another conspiracy in the African colony of Angola, and 46 persons were tried for treason...
...Lowellian Apollo has packed some charming sagittae into his current Pharaetra. Aegis-bearers John Berendt and Jeremy Johnston have avoided the inept high seriousness which has so often encumbered the Lowell House poetry magazine, and have come up with a group of pieces composed by scers, whose auburn hair Melpomene herself has no doubt bound with the fragrant laurel...