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Word: ineptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...according to Levy, because of some G.I.s' inability to direct their hostility primarily against the enemy in Viet Nam. Instead, they grudgingly learn to admire the courage and skill of the Communists, and often vent their anger against their South Vietnamese comrades, whom they see as inept, and against their own officers, sometimes brutally injuring or killing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Violent Veterans | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...been easy. Last year a Fox player seemed about to score a winning basket on a breakaway when he got tangled up with a referee and was called for double dribbling. This year victory seemed possible in a game scheduled against one particularly inept rival, but the referees failed to appear and the game was canceled. Once, the Foxes lost by two points after one of their players plunked the ball in the wrong basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Superlosers | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Bunny Mother. While many whites cite early rising hours, traffic problems and inept teachers as a reasonable basis for their objections to busing, blacks see them only as rationalizations for deeper concerns. "There will always be a reason to mask the sexual fears," argues Fort Laucer-dale Attorney Alcee L. Hastings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Grumpy Mood of Florida Voters | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...Cowboys sounds like a natural. Good premise, good Southwest locations, and John Wayne. Things go wrong, though, because of Mark Rydell's lallygagging direction and a remarkably inept, even vicious script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up Absurd | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...materialism. "Looking back, how well one sees that, from the time of its birth, historical messianism based on dialectical materialism contained the seeds of all the woe later generations were to harvest." The notion of "scientifically" established laws of history is completely incompatible with Monod's new philosophy. Equally inept is the attempt to revise that history. Rather, Monod suggests that that ideology must simply be abandoned...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: Chance & Necessity | 1/5/1972 | See Source »

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