Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hapless Yardling lacrosse will this afternoon play host to Nichols Junior College and the spirit if not the result will be in sharp opposition of the Laws of Hospitality so revered by the Greeks of the Goldern Age. The attempted sacrilege is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on the Business School mire...
...simple as to be almost nonexistent is Beckett's tale of two penniless, hapless, smelly tramps waiting, in a barren countryside, for a neighborhood personage named Godot. They chatter, gnaw carrots, tug at a tight shoe, talk of going separate ways and of hanging themselves, encounter a rich, unhappy magnate driving his servant before him as with whips. At the end of Act 1, a boy arrives to say that Godot cannot come that night but will the next. The next night, after further waiting and talking, a boy arrives to say that again Godot cannot come. As before...
...hapless Yardling lacrosse team will slip north to sample the scoring technique of Phillips Academy this afternoon, after a 16-2 spanking at the hands of Exeter, Andover's traditional rival, last week...
...German situation is hopeless, and the task of Corporal Rolf Steiner's wounded platoon is near-suicidal. Its job is to stay behind as a rearguard while the rest of the battalion withdraws. In the fluid state of the front, this means only one thing, that the hapless platoon will soon be a cork abob in a sea of Russians. The platoon has small faith in its chances, but believes mesmerically in Corporal Steiner, who has assumed command from his wounded sergeant. Steiner is one of those incurably homeless men to whom gunpowder is oxygen...
...Greek characters. He recognizes their fortitude under real pain, their histrionics over emotional trifles and their bristling pride. Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick's departure from the Ionian isle seems like expulsion from a demi-paradise...