Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unable to command enthusiasm, the Communist compel obedience. The hapless Chinese cannot speak his resentment publicly or before his child, who has been taught to spy on him, or in front of a friend, who may be an informer. He can display his disapproval only by sullen compliance or by loafing on the job. The opposition is real but unorganized: a silent resistance that shows up not in guerrilla successes but in production failures...
...seemed doubtful that any fair military court could come to a sharper decision, or avoid creating some kind of military limbo in which such hapless men as Colonel Schwable would be compelled to wander, unpunished but unloved, for the rest of their lives...
Bock-less Penn faces hapless Harvard in their first meeting of the 1953-54 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League season in Philadelphia at 8 p.m. tonight. For both teams, victory is a must; for the visitors who have lost their last eight in a row it is highly unlikely...
...dark eyes that pierced like a Bedouin's when she was talking and crinkled when she smiled. She was also the big girl on campus at the American University of Beirut, where she studied political science and practiced it by leading demonstrations for women's rights, daring hapless cops to shoot her down...
Leverett's Bunnies continued their rule over the House football league by squelching hapless Lowell, 33 to 0. In other tackle action yesterday, Winthrop white-washed Dudley...