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Word: hapless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven good German divisions had been fighting the Canadians tooth & nail. On the Roer, only six bottom-of-the-barrel divisions, backed up by two armored outfits, had faced the U.S. armies. These hapless rearguards provided most of the 50,000 prisoners which the Allies took in little more than a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: The Big River | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Victory was snatched from the grasp of Stahl's hapless quintet Wednesday evening when a Cushing General Hospital five, putting on a spurt in the last quarter, nullified the Crimson athletes' six point third-quarter advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Techmen to Meet Cagers Tomorrow | 2/9/1945 | See Source »

...quintet all the way, the F-G squad romped to a 54 to 18 victory over Company A last Friday in a game postponed from December 14. Dick Clapp and Don Schacht sparked the NROTC drive; Mac Linnell, Harry Foote, and Bill Harris fought gamely for the hapless Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL VICTORY BREAKS 3-WAY INTRAMURAL TIE | 1/16/1945 | See Source »

Dormant since its opening game last December, the Crimson finally came to life and turned on a hapless M.I.T. five Friday night to hang up its initial triumph of the campaign, 52 to 47. Earlier in the evening, the B team had outfought the Engineers in registering the season's fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Gains First Win, 52-47 | 1/16/1945 | See Source »

...German officer gave an order to a tankman, who opened fire on the Americans with a pistol. Another German in an armored car methodically sprayed the hapless captives with a Schmeisser submachine gun. Some fell to the ground, dead or wounded. A few fell, shamming dead. After the submachine gun was silent, German noncoms walked among the fallen Americans, systematically shooting all who moved or moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Murder | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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