Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing at Marriage. With fresh insights drawn from heretofore unexamined documents and a scholarly reappraisal of well-known records, Author Castelot has more than justified still another biography of the hapless Queen. His book gives nothing in scholarship to Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette, the staple for U.S. readers for the last 24 years, and (due in part to an excellent translation by Denise Folliot) excels it in readability...
Behind the three-hit pitching of Dom Repetto, Harvard helped itself to its sixth straight win yesterday, defeating a hapless Brown nine...
...three weeks, while his revolt-torn country rocked along with no government other than himself. Indonesia's President Sukarno sat back and bided his time. His own choice, a hapless politician named Suwirjo, tried in vain to form a new government, but gave up, muttering: "Thank God it's over...
Loyal Rebels. Last week, faced with threat of open (and quite probably bloody) civil war, Sukarno proclaimed a "state of siege and war," asked his dissident military commanders to confer with him in Djakarta. As the colonels began winging in, hapless Premier Sastroamidjojo drove up to the presidential palace on a humid tropical night and handed his chief, from a thin blue portfolio, his resignation. To try to put together another government, Sukarno named the little-known head of Sastroamidjojo's Nationalist Party, an ex-mayor of Djakarta named Suwirjo...
Dudley was as hapless as ever against Leverett, despite Krikor Der Hohannesian's fine play as goalie...