Word: ineptly
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...journey was much prolonged by the torrents that had fallen from the mountains and intersected the roads." Successful conquest of these mountainous, slippery areas would have to be brought about on general principles of caution and surprise which have held ever since Hannibal crossed the Alps. Even against an inept enemy, the Italians probably could accomplish this conquest only after weeks, possibly months. The brave Greeks were far from inept...
...sell her property, is sentenced to death by the Nazis for some inadvertent but illegal financial finagling. Her U. S.-born son (Robert Taylor), sniffing along her hidden trail, discovers her plight only a few days before the execution. The nerve-racking series of events which constitute his blundering, inept attempts at rescue are enough to frazzle the composure of the most hardened cinemaddicts...
...excellent health; I expect that I shall be called if the selective service act is passed. I do not object, although I have only contempt for my stupid and inept elders who have let matters come to such a pass...
...Dully inept was the Congressional defense of conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week...
...inlets Pirates Morgan, Stede Bonnet and "Black-beard" Teach once lay in wait to raid New World shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic reconnaissance, long...