Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night the McCarthy faithful-some 3,500 of them-gathered for a rally in what one of them referred to as the "so-called Constitutional Hall." Tickets were labeled "Admit One Anti-Communist." On hand were South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, the hapless chairman of the Army-McCarthy hearings; John Maragon, convicted five-percenter, sporting an "I'm for Joe" button; Columnist Westbrook Pegler; and New York's ex-Congressman Ham Fish and Montana's ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler, relics of another age. Throughout the rally, the vice commander of the Wall...
...President also found ample time to relax, watched the early innings of World Series games before taking to the golf course (where a portable radio kept him posted on the score). He rooted for, and made token bets on, the hapless Cleveland Indians...
...While they may feel the need to cultivate an indifference to certain things (most freshmen apparently never put their "dinks" on, once freshman camp is over), they are less likely to make the art of indifference a study in itself. And while they may vent their scorn verbally on hapless little Ithaca College in the town below them, they will probably not vent it on the world in general or on that portion of it unfortunate enough not to be attending Cornell...
While 1,000 reunioners and other interested spectators watched, the Elis managed to commit only four errors, while the hapless varsity made five...
Toward the end of last season, after two years in the Army, he got a chance with the St. Louis Browns (now Baltimore's Orioles). Turley won only two and lost six with the hapless Browns, but his strike-out record was impressive: 61 in 60 innings...