Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book is clumsy but powerful, inept at creating characters but bursting with action...
...Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect the Czechoslovaks to believe the absurd conspiracies confessed so abjectly at the recent Slansky trial...
...strong advocate of civil rights and a bi-partisan foreign policy, has made himself all things to New York's heterogeneous voting population. A man of Harriman's national prestige might have given Ives a close fight. But Cashmore, Borough President of Brooklyn, who is an intense but relatively inept politician, hasn't a chance...
...people; first of all, that there ought to be a change. He hammered at the "mess in Washington," at corruption, inefficiency, high taxes and high prices. The U.S., he said, must have a government the nation and the world can respect. Another aspect of the mess was the inept handling of Communism, both at home and abroad. At home, charged Eisenhower, the Administration had coddled Communists, and sneered with phrases like "red herring" at those who warned against the danger. Abroad, the Administration's foreign policy had managed to take a magnificent victory and run it into the ground...
...feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...