Word: ineptness
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...picture and sound were technically clear, transcontinental TV got only laggard help from its human machines. H. V. Kaltehborn's running commentary tended to obscure rather than illumine the action. The announcers, in their interviews with delegates, managed to say almost nothing, and that dully. Due to an inept translation, Russia's Andrei Gromyko was made to sound even more illogical than usual...
...Bohemian Girl. The "arrangement," wrote Sir Thomas, already a bit edgy from an attack of gout, "has involved the thoughts of 25 years ... at no time and nowhere in the course of a long career have I received such a preposterously inadequate, thoughtlessly impudent and magnificently inept offer from anyone." Thoroughly singed by the explosion, an abashed BBC hastily made a "substantially higher" offer, and Sir Thomas accepted...
...sticky Iranian crisis, or with the departure of Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman to look it over (see FOREIGN NEWS). It was one of those denials that give color to a suspicion which need not exist. In Teheran, white-haired "Snowball" Grady complained loudly at the White House's inept handling...
Dartmouth's strong mile relay squad fumbled its chance to beat the Crimson team of Berman, Tom McGrath, John Packard, and Grutzner by inept passing of the baton. The Crimson's time of 3:21.4 was a meet record. In the 880 Bill Montague of the Crimson came in behind Sam Daniell of the Indians despite Dave Cairns' first-lap effort to set too fast a pace for Daniell...
...Founder's Day, March 22, 1947. The huge gathering of Vassar students was hushed and all that could be heard was the scratching of Sarah Blanding's pen as the signing of the present student constitution was completed. Undergraduates and alumnae rejoiced that day for after 75 years of inept student government, Vassar College had finally come up with a clear, workable foundation for the College Government Association...