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Word: hapless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard takes a perfect 4-0 record into the contest, while its hapless opponents have lost all six games they have played. Against Brown, the only mutual opponent, the Crimson administered a 92-47 shellacking to the same team that trimmed the Huskies...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Varsity Basketball Team Plays Weak Northeastern Five Today | 12/21/1956 | See Source »

This week, as the Budapest Central Council ordered a two-day general strike to begin Monday night, the government dissolved all workers' councils, declared a state of martial law, and cut off all communication with the outside. The struggle for power went on in hapless Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Rivalry of Exhaustion | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...hapless M.I.T. Junior Varsity five could put up only token opposition last night, as the Crimson JV team romped to its third straight victory, 68 to 34, at the loser's court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV's Beat M.I.T. | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...Newcombe, hapless goat of the Dodger defeat in the World Series, won the first Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball to go with his plaque as National League's Most Valuable Player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Princeton unveiled a new running star, Tom Morris, in throughly trampling a hapless Columbia team, 39 to 0, for the Lions' second straight Ivy loss. Columbia's star quarterback and passer, Claude Benham, received a brain concussion late in the first quarter to further dampen Columbia hopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Second Team Downs Cornell, 14-0 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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