Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough ahead was important in multiplying the difficulties of maximum conversion to war; it also will, of course, lead to more inflation-than the Administration has thus far conceded. Nor is it difficult to predict who will get the rap for inflation as it develops. It will be hapless Henry Morgenthau Jr., sitting at the central Treasury controls. Yet all the ills of too much money cannot be attributed to Henry Morgenthau. No nation, has ever fought a major war without substantial inflation; and few nations have ever entered a war with the cards more stacked against the Treasury than...
...before the opening whistle, came about after a pass, a punt, a prayer, and a foul ball into the left field stands. Refusing to use his anti-tank division until the opening of a second front, Hesdman Rocknelberry Fenn used three full teams and an umpire in subaning the hapless Hanoverians...
...Teutonic knights. They formed a triangle of several score tanks, filled the center with infantry, then rammed the Soviet line, hoping that the infantrymen could mushroom out behind the lines after a breakthrough. The Russians were not caught napping. They broke the triangle and mauled the hapless foot soldiers. But still the Germans pushed...
Dudley Hall, the Commuters' Center since 1932, when Phillips Brooks House had to close the dining hall in its basement on the hapless non-residents for reasons of space, is now open for the Summer Term to all students who live at home...
...voters. In the last two years Ramspeck-sponsored bills have put some 500,000 Federal employes under civil service. As ranking Democratic member of the Labor Committee, liberal Bob Ramspeck helped carry the ball for the Wagner and Wage & Hour Acts. His only slip: this spring he championed the hapless Pensions-for-Congress bill. Faced with public revolt, Congress changed its mind. Ramspeck relented but argued solidly that the bill was "misunderstood," that Congressmen should be pensioned off the same as other Federal employes...