Word: inept
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What had caused the mild winds of discontent on a small Mediterranean island to blow up into a crisis involving the entire Western alliance? Act I. It began with some inept diplomacy in London. The British, having turned Cyprus into their Middle East military-command post, decided the time had come to do something about Greece's demand for enosis (union) with Cyprus and its dominantly Greek (80%) population. Instead of seeking a direct Anglo-Greek settlement, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan polished up an old British plan for limited home rule, already rejected by the Greek Cypriots...
...Italian kitchen when the pasta has boiled over on the baby. But Novelist Verga tells his story with a superb eye for the beauty and squalor of his Sicilian village-its busybody priest scurrying among the decaying mansions and their decaying inhabitants, its restive peasantry caught up in their inept revolutions...
...Paul Tripp. who created the excellent Mr. I. Magination in 1949, It's Magic devotes a swift-paced half hour to the Black Arts. Gali Gali, a sleight-of-hand Egyptian, displayed a witty routine involving empty eggcups and a small barnyard of baby chicks; three attractively inept dancers with the help of a black backdrop and black-garbed assistants suavely defied gravity; Dominique, a French pickpocket, took a spectator's shirt from his back without his knowing...
...bomber pilot, writes about a navigator who is a distant, haunted figure, indistinguishable from all uniformed youthful intellectuals. His problems typify the problems of every individual lost in the impersonal service: companions suddenly turned dull and insensible, sudden fear that makes him weasel out of a flight with an inept pilot, an insensitive squadron commander who lives by the book. The girl he loves is all the girls men loved in outposts of the war-vague, ephemeral, but the memory of "life and compassion, and ... the deep gentle warmth of her surrendering to him." Yet, devoid of identity, Lieut. Ripault...
...York Times unit of the Communist Party, he was shocked to find himself the only member of the editorial department, although there were half a dozen other Times employees there. A year later Freeman broke with the Communists, because party-line discussions proved "dull and fruitless," and activities "inept and futile." After his full and frank testimony, the Times kept Freeman...