Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly everyone seems to be rooting for hapless Australia. Just after the start there is a moment of hope: she edges ahead and tacks to starboard, taking Ted Turner and Courageous with her. But soon the two ships are driving into the haze as they tack toward the windward mark 4.5 miles away. At a distance, they sometimes resemble two white tents set side by side on a field of blue. As Australia drops behind, boredom is kept at bay on Provincetown by the practice of underdoggery, a game I know well from a boyhood spent as a diehard...
When he slipped quietly out of New York last May, he was, at 34, an aging wreck who couldn't even ramble, a gimpy-kneed quarterback who had been literally buried by tacklers for two successive 3-11 seasons with the hapless New York Jets. Joe Willie Namath's departure for the Los Angeles Rams as a waived free agent was the exit not of a sun-kissed superstar, but of a tarnished jewel. The glory of the 1969 Super Bowl victory and his Broadway Joe image could still sell popcorn makers and aftershave lotion, but there...
Sophomore Lee Nelson led a swarming Crimson offense, blasting two goals past hapless Wesleyan goaltender, Dan Burgioni, and assisting on a third tally...
Yale (1-0, 2-0), the other defending co-champ, also had to contend with the elements in a 23-12 victory at home over hapless UConn. The Elis presented the Huskies with eight fumbles on the afternoon, surrendering six of them...
...portrayed in Woody Allen's film The Front, Mostel was blacklisted during the McCarthy years. He made a triumphant return to the entertainment world, however, in the 1958 Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, playing Leopold Bloom. In his varied roles onstage and in film-from the hapless movie entrepreneur in The Producers to the man turned beast in Ionesco's The Rhinoceros-Mostel was the master of paradoxes: a graceful fat man and a wise buffoon...