Word: ineptly
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...three most likely candidates for The Crimson pitching staff are Kent Metchell, John Scott, and Jerry Mechling, who save a total of 28 innings of varsity experience behind them. Mitchell and Scott pitched a bit for last year's team and performed quite creditable--but against rather inept opposition. Mechling was a star for the JV team...
...Hook. When the story first broke, the U.S. was inept in its efforts to soften criticism. The White House, for example, seemed more concerned about getting President Johnson off an uncomfortable hook than about producing an explanation. Press Secretary George Reedy took great pains to let it be known that the gas was first sent to South Viet Nam before Johnson became President, which is irrelevant, and that it was used without his knowledge, which is inexcusable...
...court, Stratton often acted more like a candidate than a potential convict, waving to friends, shaking hands all around, and at one point drawing a rebuke from Judge Hubert L. Will for "grimacing, smiling, gesticulating." Warned Judge Will, in a somewhat inept classical allusion: "I don't want you sitting there like a sphinx, but I don't want you playing Hamlet either." Yet for all the histrionics, the basics of the trial consisted of two questions intimately related to American politics: What constitutes a political contribution? What constitutes a political expense...
...flush of success, Butler sent poorly officered troops into combat at Big Bethel-the war's first battle-and got whipped. Though Big Bethel was soon forgotten in the greater Union calamity at Bull Run, it established Butler's reputation as an inept field commander. But when New Orleans was taken, Butler was sent to take over the occupation...
...well in their jobs, particularly when their training coincides with the needs of industries in the locality of the college. But Medsker contends that too many junior colleges tend to belittle their middle-track duty of providing a general education for the nontransfer, nontechnical student. Counseling is also often inept. The failure to give this type of student a meaningful broad education is a serious fault, since two-thirds of all students entering junior college profess an intention to continue to a senior college-but only one-third actually...