Word: inept
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EURf Leon Uris' Exodus, a plodding novel about Israel that could almost serve as a textbook of inept fiction writing...
...gives a magnificent performance. The Inspector is not the usual suave type, he doesn't have beautiful girls falling all over him. Not only is Maigret happily married, but he is aging, paunchy, and tired. With all these drawbacks, he still managers to make Peter Gunn look like an inept amateur...
...battalions and kidnaped Abboud's No. 2 man, the Minister of the Interior. But Abboud, after hearing out the brigadiers' complaints, fired his Interior Minister and promoted the two officers to seats on Sudan's Supreme Military Council. Two months later the mutineers organized another inept coup, and though a court-martial sentenced them to death, Abboud commuted their sentences to life imprisonment...
...inept handling of the U.S. space program puts this nation at the most serious disadvantage it has yet experienced in the cold war, and it is long overdue that the Eisenhower Administration receive the public reprimand it deserves for this inexcusable situation. Your article on the subject is an excellent study; may Washington take heed...
...Armada, by Garrett M. Mattingly. A clear, exciting account of one of history's most crucial and inept naval campaigns, and of the stormy political climate in which it was fought...