Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hapless California officials who are now moving gingerly to bow to the will of the majority cannot, however, fail to hear the clash of other voices. Indeed, there was a tinge of class conflict in the campaign for Proposition 13, with possible portents of racial trouble in the simmering summer months. By and large, homeowners from the middle and upper classes, justly aggrieved by their rising tax burden, had led the tax revolt. But worried blacks and Hispanics in California feared, with some cause, that as government turned more frugal, they would be hurt the most...
...hapless Bruins encountered the famous Montreal jinx, as the Canadiens seemingly invincible on their home ice, outskated the visitors from start to finish in a penalty-ridden contest...
...Crimson exploded for a school record 29 goals and attackman Mike Faught became the latest in a long line of stickmen to tie a school record with 11 points as Harvard overwhelmed the hapless Ephmen...
JUST THEN, a woman carrying a rolling pin walked into the room. Obviously distraught, she began pummelling the hapless comic with the kitchen implement, and screaming printable obscenities...
...upon closer examination, the circumstances surrounding the Justice Department's FBI investigation raise a few nagging doubts about the criteria and motivations behind the unprecedented indictments of three former top executives of the bureau. For example, the decision to prosecute the hapless Gray may have merely represented Bell's rebuttal to the five Justice Department attorneys who resigned from the FBI probe four months ago in protest over Bell's alleged foot-dragging on the case...