Word: ineptness
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HARVARD 7, HOLY CROSS 6. This game boils down to Gill "The Thrill" Fenerty against the Harvard secondary. Harvard scores a touchdown when a Fenerty option pass is tipped up into the air by an inept receiver and intercepted by Harvard safety Cecil Cox, who returns it for a touchdown...
Princeton's continued inept play led to the final Harvard tally. Crimson adjuster Rod Comisar grabbed a Tiger fumble out of the air at the visitors' 20-yard line and fell...
...explanations. Botha may have changed his mind at the last minute out of pique, balking at the pressure implicit in the advance publicity. Another possibility is that Botha failed to realize how important the speech had become in the eyes of the international community. South Africa is often so inept at public relations that one Western diplomat in Pretoria jokes that there is a secret government office called "the ministry of bad timing...
Herds of country cognoscenti await McManus' appearance in magazines and books (Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1983). The 30 pieces assembled here run a bucolic gamut of outdoor misadventures. The author recalls his encounter with an inept wilderness guide: "Once he got us so lost I resorted to firing three shots in rapid succession. But the light was bad and I missed him." At other times McManus offers addled expertise. He tells new husbands how to build up a gun collection without attracting the attention of their wives. Hint: get the little woman to stop counting rifles and start thinking...
Macon is the most engaging member of this sweetly perverse clan. He may be master of the minimal, but he is inept in the face of vitality. Edward keeps him hopping. His boss insists on launching him in search of the latest in bland and drab. An admirably persistent Muriel steers him into her life, which includes a sickly son. Despite incompatible styles, the arrangement works: Muriel tames the dog, and Macon invigorates...