Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a prosecutor confronting a stubborn defendant with his own damning confession, Tom Dewey had a field day with a hatful of hapless Administration quotes, including some from Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled that, in January 1940, he himself had called for a two-ocean Navy. That statement had been branded by F.D.R. as "just plain dumb." Cracked Tom Dewey: "Then, as now, we got ridicule instead of action...
...German garrison troops still in Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean might never be able to escape. They had held their own with the aid of 15 Bulgarian divisions. The hapless Bulgar troops did not yet know whether they should still fight-and, if so, on which side. Serbian Chetniks were found to be still aiding the Germans...
...Friday, Lowell was again shellacked, this time, 17 to 6. This game was featured by Lowell playing the entire game with only eight men, two under par for a softball team. In the other portion of the twin bill, Company E toppled Adams House, 15 to 9. The hapless Gold Coasters have yet to win a game in the competition, having gone down to defeat three times. As it stands now, Lowell and Adams, only civilian Houses still functioning, will fight it out for the honor of ultimate reposal in Chief Dunlap's league wine-collar...
Jack Haley, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard get mixed up with a Dude Ranch and try to make the place a financial success. Amid bucking bronchos and strutting cowgirls, Haley and his hapless friends go through the usual routine of a grade B filler, avoiding new twists and good jokes like the plague...
...tackled a heavy raider force and went down with her guns blazing, saving a convoy by her sacrifice. But it paid off richly in the destruction of the Graf Spee, paid off again in the trapping and sinking of the Bismarck, paid off in every engagement with the hapless Italian Fleet, paid off in the timely sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst (TIME, Jan. 3). Last week it paid off once more: in the Bay of Biscay, two British warships closed with and sank three enemy destroyers, damaged several others, also sank a heavily laden blockade runner...