Word: ineptly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some internal dissension over the handling of White House Witness Patrick Buchanan the week before, the committee hopes to complete its dirty-tricks phase this week. Some Democratic staff members have been privately critical of Dash for calling Buchanan to testify and for what they consider his politically naive, inept questioning of Buchanan, who verbally and sometimes brilliantly mauled the committee-and got away with...
...O.A.S., and Christian Plume, 48, a journalist, interviewed former O.A.S. leaders and obtained access to the French Interior Ministry's records. The result is an extraordinary tale of mad zeal, abominable planning and incredibly bad luck by what was surely the world's most dedicated and inept gang of assassins...
...besides all that, poor Bok had his ankle crushed by an inept Administration teammate two years ago in the Crimson-Jox basketball match...
...Confidence. In a Louis Harris poll released shortly before the President spoke last week, 73% of those questioned rated his handling of the economy as inept. They had reason. By all available measures, Nixon has thoroughly botched the job he said he was elected to do: rampant inflation is driving food prices up at the fastest pace in a generation. The cost and scarcity of red meat dominate household conversation, but they are far from the only economic woe. Phase IV opened last week with a burst of price-increase announcements on many other items -steel, tires, cars. Interest rates...
...lines like this denote uncomplementary transactions, and bode trouble. For example, the Adult-to-Adult question about the cuff links might be answered with a sharp "Where you left them," a reproof that comes from the wife's Parent and is addressed to what she sees as the inept Child in her husband's personality...