Word: ineptly
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...suggestion that Haya and his lieutenants were too smart to have mixed in the inept Callao revolt, anti-Apristas had an answer. The army had been expected to join the revolt; instead had remained loyal to President Bustamante. Others accused Aprista leaders of cowardice. Said one: "I have always believed Haya to be just a tough guy with no guts...
...year round for every man, on the proven theory that good athletes make good officers. The authorities have found that five times as many cadet officers come from the top ten percent in physical aptitude as from the bottom ten, while almost all maladjustments come from the physically inept. The cynical believe that West Point's uniformly excellent athletic teams are a cause, rather than an effect, of the theory behind them, while heaven knows how many battered opponents have been left to wonder if their defeat wasn't perhaps the result of some deep-seated maladjustment...
...began, Osubka-Morawski was a small-fry organizer in the left wing of Poland's Socialist Party. In the wartime underground he teamed with the Communists, went to Moscow, and returned as Socialist Premier in the Moscow-created provisional government. To repay the Reds he hatched an inept, ill-timed and abortive plot to merge his Socialists with the Communists. His blundering displeased the Communists; his intent angered the Socialists. Osubka-Morawski was demoted from Premier to the rank of Minister of Public Administration. Communist displeasure deepened when he snatched a choice government apartment coveted by Secret Police Boss...
...long ago, the woman would never have darkened the library's doors- nor would many of her fellow citizens. For years, the city's public-library system was a collection of dark buildings filled with shabby books and headed by inept political appointees. Reform groups demanded that something be done. The first trained librarian they picked died in office after only a few months. The second time they were luckier: they got a bookish, pipe-smoking Tennessean named John Hall Jacobs...
...Once he gained fame, Author Caldwell abandoned his narrow, though unusual gift. Prompted perhaps by the party-line critics and earnest sociologists who misread his sordid stories as profound exposures of Southern society,* Caldwell undertook to write "seriously." The result was lamentable: each of his recent novels is more inept than its predecessor, and the latest one is as scrawny a literary turkey as has been hatched...