Word: ineptness
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...example, was unable to adapt rapidly to fast-paced ground warfare. On one occasion Schwarzkopf had to request Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to order his troops into battle. Schwarzkopf also calls the Kuwaiti and Saudi ground forces the worst in the coalition, and he saves special criticism for inept Saudi army commanders, many of whom are members of the royal family. The allied chief preferred to deal almost exclusively with the Saudi air force...
Springfield leapt out in front, winning the first two games by scores of 15-13 and 15-11. These two games were not that close, however, and were marked by a host of missed serves and inept plays by the Crimson--a far cry from its winning performance at the Roger Williams Invitational February...
...1940S HOLLYWOOD, the Golden Age of the Silver Screen, Safari Sagoodi follows the travails of Tinsel-town's "most inept film factory," the Stu-Stu Studio, as it plunges toward bank-bank bankruptcy. The studio's ruthless Head Honcha, Annette Prophet (Glenn Kiser '91) has given her staff one more chance to crank out a blockbuster before the studio's creditors shut it down...
...started, the 300-page collection was an immediate hit. But some of the scenes of combat are improbable, showing Japanese and German soldiers participating in the conflict and U.S. forces staging a fake attack on fellow warriors to jump-start the war. The Japanese, however, prove to be inept on the battlefield. In one scene a band of soldiers engrossed in pornographic magazines take a wrong turn in the desert and manage to get out of their explosives-laden truck just before it accidentally blows...
...scholarship imbroglio so visibly unbalanced Bush -- and so glaringly spotlighted the Administration's inept handling of civil rights -- that it all but eclipsed Alexander's generally well-received nomination. The drama hurtled Administration officials into a rushed series of consultations. Result: a policy flip that flopped spectacularly. Civil rights leaders blasted the White House for threatening to slam expensive college doors in the faces of under- represented minority students. Conservative critics lambasted the decision for its failure to reject unambiguously racial preferences of any kind...