Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the jousting between cat & mice is an old stand-by of the animated cartoon, Cinderella redeems it with such lovably drawn mice as the eager but inept...
Douglas' chances looked as hopeless as Harry Truman's; Douglas himself had fought for Eisenhower instead of Truman before Philadelphia, convinced at the time that the President was "inept." But in the spring of 1948, Douglas hitched a loudspeaker to a jeep station wagon and started out across the state. Talking wherever a crowd would gather, beginning at factory gates at 7 a.m., stopping at every gas station and crossroads café, winding up again at another factory for the midnight shift, he covered 40,000 miles, made more than 1,100 speeches in six months...
There was no question, said explosive experts, that the dynamiter, however inept he may have been, meant business. There was enough dynamite in the box to wreck the building and to damage the General Motors research building next door...