Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines as the hapless parent in a skilled version of the Edward Streeter comic bestseller (TIME...
...Over the years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics" had not changed. From the Korean war zone, LIFE Staff Photographer Carl Mydans cabled...
...Bernardo's words became the talk of Argentina, the embarrassed government silenced Radio El Mundo for 24 hours, suspended its hapless announcer. "To make fun of people's ignorance and to exploit their confusion," warned the Ministry of Communications, ". . . is not in keeping with the educational, artistic or cultural aims of the nation." Henceforth, it was decreed, all radio programs in which the public would have access to the microphone are banned...
...Hapless M.I.T., which has lost six games this year by one run, fought feverishly to come from behind and win yesterday, and for nine innings it looked as though they might succeed. In the next frame, however, they were rudely toppled from the dizzy heights of a 4 to 4 tie and went hurtling down to a 7 to 4 defeat, their ninth and probably most disheartening setback of the season...
Rutgers, traditionally a hapless crew, already has defeats by Penn and Washington and Lee against...