Word: ineptness
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Democratic discussion may seem inept and dreamy, but what counts are the results achieved in the end. Certainly those achieved at Peoria encourage faith in the democratic system for which Federal Union stands...
...TIME, wrong on Sparkplug Schultz, assures Unionist Streit that 1) some of its best friends are ministers and professors, 2) it does not find democratic discussion necessarily inept and dreamy, 3) it agrees that results count...
...have reached the same conclusion. "We must face the fact," he acknowledged, "that the people of this country believe-with certain reservations-that the present Administration understands what makes the world tick." Then he lit into the Democrats domestically: too long in office, too powerful, too wasteful, too inept...
...owner of the Fun Fair also owns dance halls and nightclubs, manages a mob of burglars and gunmen. He teaches Ernie the fine points of burglary, but the boy, an inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling...
...Southwest Pacific Theater, where he was Chief of Staff for Air after Pearl Harbor, Ralph Royce's showing had been only soso. Army airmen charged pedestrian performance more to a generally inept air command than to personal failure...