Word: maladroitness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally there is the case of the man whom many Tories saw as Heath's most attractive successor, Sir Keith Joseph, onetime Social Services Minister. Sir Keith has been laid low by a severe case of political harakiri. In a singularly maladroit (and largely inaccurate) speech early last month, he attacked the British lower classes for promiscuity and excessive breeding practices. Because of this, he is not expected to survive politically...
...second prevailing Watergate myth is that Republican dirty tricks determined the Democratic nomination. As one who was closely associated with the Muskie campaign until the Senator's withdrawal from the primaries, I am convinced that the reasons for his failure were not Donald Segretti's vicious yet maladroit acts of sabotage, but our own mistakes. Senator Muskie was slipping in the New Hampshire polls before he cried on the steps of the Union Leader. The Muskie campaign was out-organized in Wisconsin and over-extended in Florida. The Senator did not take or communicate clear issue positions; he seemed...
Chile's military junta, which quickly overthrew the late Marxist President Salvador Allende in a bloody September coup, is struggling now with an infinitely tougher task: righting an economy that three years of maladroit socialistic experiments left in a shambles. When the generals grabbed power, inflation was roaring out of control; farm, factory and mine production were scraping bottom; Chile's banking and financial system had all but collapsed...
Most terrorists are not so maladroit. The Red Army Faction in Munich planted bombs at the U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg, killing three Americans, and boasts of another bombing in Frankfurt, which killed an American colonel. West German Autobahnen have been strung with roadblocks, and police searched for the remaining members of the bomb-slinging Bonnie und Clyde gang (TIME, June 12). So far, six have been caught. One was Gudrun Ensslin, 31, a minister's daughter and former student of German literature, who was captured in a Hamburg boutique after a saleswoman noticed a pistol stuffed into...
...occupation has been altogether benevolent-with one exception. Earlier this year, Israel's housing minister mounted "a Zionist exhibition" by confiscating Arab land for high-rise apartments to be occupied by Jewish families. The proposal, since scaled down in response to foreign protest, was aesthetically bad, politically maladroit, and detracted from what was otherwise a reasonable argument for Israeli control of the city...