Word: inept
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...every respect, the Smith-Connally law had proved one of the most inept pieces of legislation in U.S. history. It had left John Lewis free to pursue a more arrogant path than ever, because it set up the machinery for dramatizing strike threats. It had angered labor, had prevented no strikes. It had made the Government a kind of silent partner in those that did occur...
...since Franklin Roosevelt's death, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt last week broke her silence on what she thinks of his successor's foreign policies. Items: she does not like President Truman's thinking about the atomic bomb secret, thinks that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes used inept tactics at the Council of Foreign Ministers...
...William Bradford, a Denver-born author and scholar named George Findlay Willison has pieced together a brisk history of the Plymouth colony which should go far toward answering questions like this one. His Saints and Strangers is a far cry from the textbook story. His Pilgrim Fathers are as inept a crew of pious pioneers as ever tackled a howling wilderness...
...thousands of Berliners, men and boys, ill-clothed, ill-weaponed, inept Volkssturmer, old & tired onetime soldiers, the fanatic Hitlerjugend, even hundreds of women, went to the fields and forests at the edges of the city. There they found trenches, pillboxes, antitank ditches. They also found begrimed, bone-tired soldiers and Luftwaffe officers scrambled in irregular detachments. And they found enormous numbers of antiaircraft guns with their wicked snouts now leveled, dug-in tanks with their deadly 88s, machine guns aligned, almost tripod to tripod, to sweep the highways. Perhaps...
Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany...