Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army (5-0-1)-ran all over hapless Colgate...
...Archbishop's Plan. It was a bitter beginning for Britain's hapless "adventure in partnership," the plan to freeze the status of Cyprus for seven years, during which the Turkish and Greek governments would be drawn into running the island's day-to-day affairs in a kind of tridominium. The Greeks were dead set against any plan to get Turkey into the act. As the deadline for the plan's start approached...
...Having sneaked to a fourth term through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic conduct in office. In the primary, Roberts had to run against his ambitious lieutenant governor, Armand H. Cote, won by only 11,000 votes. And hapless Governor Roberts still has to explain why he fired a telegram (also signed by ten other Governors) to Washington last February demanding a federal tax cut from President Eisenhower, while simultaneously asking his own Rhode Island taxpayers to cough up another $10 million...
...schools open again, Negroes or no. The first bursts of indignation came when the Little Rock school board interpreted his school-closing order as automatic cancellation of Central High's cherished football schedule. Faubus got out of that by accusing the school board of being integrationist, and the hapless board, already threatened with recall by petition, gave a green light to football practice and the game between Central High and Tilghman Trade School of Paducah, Ky. (Central 25, Tilghman 14-Central's 35th straight victory...
...Buffalo managed to win, even by a 6-3 margin. The Crimson's offense ground out 17 first downs to a skimpy six for Buffalo, and while the home team was covering 175 yards on the ground, the Bulls were hard put to make 49. In fact, the hapless Buffalo attack moved the ball into Crimson territory only once during the game, and that was not until midway through the third quarter...