Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young, alert field officers returned from the Israeli war, having suffered a more humiliating defeat than any country in the 20th century. For their defeat they blamed the inept, lazy officers who ran the War Ministry and also Farouk, for he meddled in the army, promoting the inept officers, including the worst of all, General Mohammed Haidar Pasha, the commander in chief...
...Make Him Fight!" The most striking suggestion that Ike Eisenhower is a candidate who can win came next day, in Detroit. All along, Ike has been chafing under the conflicting and sometimes inept advice from his campaign managers. His first big speech at Abilene had fallen somewhat flat. On the train to Detroit last week, Ike sat up with his speech writers, going over suggested drafts. He rejected them all. "It doesn't sound like me," he said. In the morning, he made his decision...
...Price Is Right. Regular publishers say privately that what is least admirable about their vanity cousins is the false encouragement and heady praise some of them hand out to inept writers. They are probably right, but it is also true that most of the well established publishers do a bit of vanity publishing themselves-if the book is not too embarrassingly bad, and if the price is right...
...short bits of poetry, David Chandler's Explorator and Benjamin LaFarge's In Memory, are competent and interesting. Chandler's poem is the more colorful of the two. The only really inept piece in the issue is George Kelly's Liptight My Thoughts, two pages of senile mutterings...
...Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, 27, a seventh-round technical knockout over aging (35) Lee Savold; in Philadelphia. Marciano, a leading contender for the world title, was so inept-once, missing with a wild right, he threw himself flat on his face-that Champion Joe Walcott, who had been dickering with Marciano, promptly agreed to a return fight in June with ex-Champion Ezzard Charles...