Word: ineptness
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...suspect that our society's flight from the Bible arises from the fact that its message makes us squirm-especially those parts about God's siding with the poor, the inept and the outcast. Proud, rich nations do not want to hear about camels and needles' eyes, suffering servants or crucified kings, but the Bible is a part of us. It lives in our language, our mental imagery and above all in our conscience, whether we like...
...Saud. Even as OPEC oil, of which Faisal's reserves constitute the largest share, rocks Western economies, the West's relentless thirst for petroleum is in turn forcing far-reaching modernization on Faisal's desert kingdom. Faisal has faced no greater quandary since he displaced his inept half brother Saud from the throne in 1964. At that time, hard as it may be to believe today, his country was unable to pay its debts without loans from Aramco, and one of Faisal's first decisions had to be to cut the oil-fueled allowances of fellow...
...party with his wife Giuseppina and his son Alfredo, the dignified D'Angerio, 65, noticed a pair of headlights following them through the dense fog near Monza. Suddenly, an Alfa Romeo passed D'Angerio's little Fiat, and tried to force it off the road. The inept driver had pulled in front too quickly, however, and Alfredo, who was driving the Fiat, had no choice but to ram the Alfa in the side...
...pastoral work in secrecy and disguise. Arrested in 1679, he was hanged by the English two years later on trumped-up treason charges. Given the bloody religious war now raging in Ulster, the choice of Plunket for canonization in the Holy Year of 1975 seemed to many politically inept...
...also inhabited by a small girl named Arabel. Mortimer's unquenchable hope is to find diamonds in the family coal scuttle, but he soon branches into carpet eating, letter spearing and serving as unwilling accessory to a diamond heist conducted by a trained squirrel and a pair of inept gangsters...