Word: maladroit
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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...
...fear discovery, they deliver the child themselves. They also play at marriage, standing in a corner of the church during a real wedding ceremony and whispering the vows to each other. There is even an unhappy ending, meant to be touching, but so laughably illogical that it becomes merely maladroit...
Poverty and discrimination condemn blacks to bad housing. Less obvious factors include the decay of public housing (50.8% occupied by blacks) and maladroit federal programs, such as urban renewal and highway building, which razed 800,000 city units between 1949 and 1967. The Government has also speeded the white exodus from cities. Since World War II, it has financed only 800,000 urban units, while insuring the financing of 10 million suburban homes. Fortunately, the Federal Housing Administration has begun to change this pattern. More than 50% of FHA's mortgage insuring activity has lately been shifted to properties...