Word: inept
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...Patrick) Herbert, wag, Senior Member of Parliament for Oxford University and Britain's most whimsical reformer, has embarked on a new crusade.* Bedridden with a bad foot late last year, Herbert did not count wallpaper patterns but renamed the stars. He found their old names "queer, unworthy and inept." He has renamed some 300 stars, for a starter...
...Office of Censorship. When able Elmer Davis took over as head of OWI last summer, with executive powers straight from the President, newsmen believed that the military news jam would be dynamited. Yet within the last weeks have come some of the war's worst examples of inept, demoralizing suppression of war news...
Baldwin's account suggested that the blame for these and other losses did not belong exclusively to Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, the area commander whom the Navy relieved last fortnight. Baldwin named no names, but he implied that inept, overtimid, task-force commanders may have been at least partly to blame. His major conclusion: "The Solomons have clearly shown deficiencies-which stem from overcaution and the defensive complex-that must be remedied. If mistakes continue, we can defeat ourselves...
...Sound of an American has already stirred up considerable cacophony. The book, a sequence of bedroom scenes staged before and during the fall of France, has been compared to the work of Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Tolstoy. It has also been called clumsily vulgar and inept...
Disaster. A previously inept politico, Franco demonstrated that the stress & strain of being dictator of a gaunt, proud land still in a state of civil war had taught him a few lessons. He canned both General Varela and Serrano in a Cabinet shakeup that became an international sensation...