Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least a few Chinese dissenters have gone much further in rejecting Mao's posthumous influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang...
Turner who works as hard at racing as he did in in building his Atlanta-based business empire (an outdoor advertising company, two TV stations, the hapless Atlanta Braves), has no intention of losing the trophy. "We came to win," he exhorted his ten-man crew last week, "and that's what we're doing, right?" Among the eagle-eyed yachting fraternity that swarmed into historic Newport for the best-of-seven series, there was nearly unanimous agreement. Despite obvious progress since their last challenge three years ago with Southern Cross, Australian Real Estate Developer Alan Bond...
...wicker furniture Newsroom cynics jest that it is difficult to get a story into the paper without a recipe attached. Others suggest that the Times augment Living with a weekly section called Dying, filled with obituaries and funeral-parlor ads, and launch a new insert called News. A hapless reporter, so one routine goes, was sent to cover a flower show for Living, missed the crucial unveiling of a new strain of begonia and, as punishment, was made a foreign correspondent...
With no more losses to spare, the Devils turned to intimidation, pounding 11 hits in the first four innings to eliminate hapless Minnesota, 8-4. And things got hotter as ASU finally met South Carolina. The Devils raced to a 5-2 cushion and called on Allen to close it out. Allen throws a breaking ball about as often as it snows in Tempe, and this night was no exception. Blazing fastballs down the middle of the plate, Allen humbled hitter after hitter, working himself into a veritable rage...
...games this season (65) as he had played in the previous two combined. That his presence made the difference was dramatically demonstrated by Portland's performance when he did not play. Of those 17 Walton-less games, Portland won only five-a percentage barely above that of the hapless New York Nets. As the season wore on and Walton did not wear out, Portland was struck by an unfamiliar notion: the championship was within reach...