Word: ineptness
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...take care of this monarch as well, especially since her protectors last week seemed astonish ingly inept at doing so. In an incident that London's Daily Express scathingly called "the most gross and scandalous lapse of security in her 30-year reign," Queen Elizabeth II was abruptly awakened by an intruder early one morning and forced to spend an eerie ten minutes conversing with him. The visitor had evaded guardsmen, bobbies, servants, surveillance cameras and electronic devices to reach the royal bedroom, one flight up from the palace grounds...
Argentina is basically a rich country, but mismanagement by an inept government brought on economic chaos. Capital, lent in a businesslike manner, can put Argentina back on its feet...
Advocates often showed a curious blend of naivete and arrogance. There was a failure initially to recruit nonworking and minority women. Nonprofessional pink-collar workers felt put down. Women who had "made it" economically also felt estranged. When it came to lobbying legislators, ERA supporters could be appallingly inept. In Illinois, a woman offered a legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state...
...Kirkpatrick speech. But aides traveling with the President confessed to astonishment at her behavior. Said one incredulous adviser: "Can you believe she made that speech while we're over here? What's the matter with her?" Asked by reporters whether he agreed that U.S. foreign policy was inept, Haig shrugged good-naturedly: "No more so than 200 some years of American history. At times it is. At times it's not." For her part, Kirkpatrick claimed correctly but somewhat irrelevantly that she had "said nothing I have not said at least ten times in the last three...
...heavyweight crown. When Swede Ingemar Johansson shook Floyd Patterson loose from the title momentarily in 1959, Ingemar had one wonderful year to enjoy it. He was the last white champion. Since then, promoters have searched high and low, usually low, from Omaha to Bayonne, N.J., and found mostly inept white brawlers like Ron Stander and Chuck Wepner...