Word: maladroit
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...SHOT IN THE DARK. As a maladroit inspector from the Sureté, Peter Sellers pursues Elke Sommer through a multiple murder case and turns up fresh evidence that he is one of the funniest actors alive...
...ineffectiveness or illiberalism does that assistance cease to be justified? Let me be very clear that there is such a point. There could be no greater error of calculation than to imagine that the U.S. will try to save all comers from Communism, however feeble their own efforts, however maladroit their administration, or however despotic their internal politics. Governments can be so bad either in motive or performance or a combination of the two that they are not worth saving, or cannot be saved. But if we resolved to extend our aid only to perfect democracies, we would have very...
Portly Sir Hari Singh was maladroit as a lover in his youth, despotic as a Maharajah in his prime and, in his declining years, the man who stuck the" world with the Kashmir problem. Last week he died after a heart attack at the age of 65. Republic of India flags in Jammu City were lowered to half staff, stores and businesses reverently closed, and thousands shuffled through the streets in mournful procession...
...firing from the hip: all that prevented a massacre comparable to South Africa's Sharpeville (TIME, April 4) was the cops' bad aim. Circling unhappily in the background, Lumumba's Red-lining press adviser, Frenchman Serge Michel, passed a one-word judgment on the whole affair: "Maladroit...
...Kasai. Maladroit as he was, bearded Patrice Lumumba last week staged an erratic but undeniable demagogic comeback. As the week opened, secessionists in Katanga and Kasai provinces still held large portions of his nation. In the Congolese Parliament, Senator Sebastian Fele, newly sprung from a Lumumba jail, won cheers from his col leagues when he roared that the Premier should be removed from office. To restore his sagging power, Lumumba badly needed a quick, dramatic victory...