Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight-yard run by Lowenstein started the afternoon's scoring at 13:46 of the first quarter. Only sloppy ball prevented the Crimson from tallying earlier against the hapless Wildcats. Then, eight minutes later, Lowenstein picked out Dexter Lewis with the same sharp eye that he employs on "Hoover Specials" for a 63-yard scoring play, 29 of it through...
...games Thursday afternoon, Dunster trounced hapless Lowell 27 to 0, and Leverett turned back Adams' bid for first place...
...Dwyer. She is divorced from him, she explained, except in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church (she will go to Mexico to try for a church annulment). She spoke warmly about O'Dwyer and professed to be tickled about magazine stories that have pictured him as the hapless pawn of a playgirl: "Every story has a hero and a villain. I am delighted to be the villain in this case, if it'll give him the break he deserves...
Hannah Lee (Jock Broder Productions) refers to a cowboy ballad used as background music to one more encounter between the wicked cattle barons and the hapless homesteaders. Macdonald Carey plays the hired gunman who slaps small boys, makes roughhouse passes at the beautiful saloonkeeper (Joanne Dru), and shoots harmless people dead. For all the gunplay, the film limps along from anticlimax to anticlimax, but moviegoers may be beguiled by some spectacular Technicolor scenery. As the U.S. marshal who goes to the rescue, John Ireland sets some sort of precedent by losing all his fist fights and getting shot down...
...hapless attempt to redeem themselves, the Communist government announced that 84 carloads of hogs, 39 carloads of fish and nine carloads of butter were on the way to East Germany from Red Poland. But while this much conciliation continued, the Communist rulers began to talk a tough line, and demanded discipline in their own ranks. Sixteen East German workers, accused of rioting, were sentenced to long prison terms, and Soviet T-34 tanks were once again seen on the outskirts of East Berlin...