Word: ineptness
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...blackjack rule" of the cops. The force is also under a cloud because of a federal investigation of alleged payoffs from narcotics operators to some of its high-ranking officers. Some of the police still regard the mayor as a cop hater and Police Chief Philip Tannian as an inept lackey. But they have enforced the curfew and regained control of the streets-at least temporarily...
...lover. The myth took a body blow, so to speak, with the recent publication of excerpts from a 400-page study titled Report on the Sexual Behavior of Italians, or, as it was quickly dubbed, "The Italian Kinsey Report." The Italian male emerges from the study as a cursory, inept lover, crippled by a Don Giovanni complex that propels him endlessly toward the conquest of women...
...debated with Attorney James Otis Jr., who first argued in court in 1761 against the constitutionality of general search warrants known as writs of assistance (John Adams believes that "American independence was then and there born"). At a Masonic lodge, Hancock encountered both Otis and Samuel Adams, an inept businessman but master polemicist and organizer of the Sons of Liberty. These three soon became leaders in the resistance to the Stamp Act. Declared Hancock: "I will not be a slave. I have a right to the liberties and privileges of the English Constitution...
Other possibilities: Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, who is a liberal-labor favorite, but showed himself a shallow, inept candidate in the primaries; Jackson, who would draw Jewish support but was even more deadly on the stump than Bayh; and Maine's Senator Ed Muskie, who is a tested leader, but is seen as a failed candidate since his 1972 flop. Two men unlikely to be considered are Congressman Mo Udall, who pointedly pricked the usually controlled Carter temper the last couple of months, and California Governor Jerry Brown, who Carter staffers say has been flatly ruled...
...publicly, challenged his credibility." Thorpe might possibly have saved himself had he immediately come clean on the whole business. Even if he had had no sexual relationship with Scott and knew nothing of the cash payments to the model, he erred in not investigating and exposing his friends' inept attempts to protect him. His failure to do so gave the damaging impression that Thorpe was engaged in a cover-up-as he may have been...