Word: inept
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...once been the best tennis player in the world was not usually so inept at his new profession as he was last week. In the past year, he had driven his Mercury some 35,000 miles and slept in many a hotel bed too short for his 6 ft. 2 in. No tank-town tourney was too small for him; he played in 44 big & little ones, a grind that would wear out most pro golfers. By sheer persistence, he had earned $12,000 in prize money (compared to $50,000 his first season as a tennis pro). His score...
...still on Flores when the Japs attacked the N.E.I. In eight days the Dutch lost Java. Gallant but inept, the Dutch Navy bungled into calamity and the Dutch air force was destroyed. Thereafter, it would have been pointless, militarily, for the Dutch Army to attempt resistance. To the Indonesians, however, the Army was the symbol of Dutch rule. When the Army did not fight and Dutch Governor General A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer* fled to Australia, the Indonesians lost all respect for the Dutch. Millions of Indonesians swallowed the Jap slogan "Asia for the Asiatics...
...little sermon, pulled it through 89 dressy sets, photographed it tenderly from every possible angle and spiced it up with a thrilling musical background, it stands revealed as a rather small, shivering, indecently exposed banality. Hollywood's cameras, always rudely frank about a misshapen nose or an inept gesture, have everlastingly proved that they can be equally ruthless and revealing with a fuzzy idea...
...China as an international pawn to thwart Russian expanision, and wellmeant but inept attempts to solve China's problems with inapplicable U. S. formulas were cited as two main defeate in U. S. Far Eastern policy at the fourth Law School Forum last night...
...Viva Wallace!" Truman's troubles had begun with his endorsement of Wallace's now famed Madison Square Garden speech (TIME, Sept. 23). The President had collected his wits long enough to repudiate both his own inept words and the speech. But last week newsmen got wind of something else. This was a confidential memorandum on foreign affairs which Wallace had written to the President in July. Someone in Wallace's Commerce Department-doubtless thinking that this was an opportune time to embarrass the President-had given a copy to Columnist Drew Pearson, who intended to publish...