Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe, ahead by a narrow length at the mile mark, was the beneficiary of a Yale miscue, as Yale's number four oarswoman caught a boat-stopping crab. After that, the J.V. just kept moving out away from the hapless Elis...
...months ago. Saturday, one short year after Harvard edged Princeton to highlight a happy season, the Tigers destroyed the Crimson, 17-7. It was Harvard's third straight loss, coming after the laxmen had misfired against a top-ranked but flat Cornell squad, 12-5, and been upset by hapless Yale, 13-10. That was the Elis' only Ivy triumph in the last two years...
...contemptuously at a pair of bedraggled, badly wounded prisoners-the first, apparently, to have been captured by government forces in nearly two months of fighting against invaders in Shaba province (TIME, April 25). Mobutu's gestures brought cries of "Mort, mort," (Death, death) from the crowd. Looking as hapless as Christians facing an arena of lions, the two men were paraded before foreign newsmen and testified through interpreters that Cuba and Angola were behind the invasion by Katangese rebels, as Mobutu has claimed all along...
...empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications and mashed-apple breakfasts, and offers a little touch of comedy when a hapless secretary blunders into a war conference wearing shorts and carrying a tennis racquet...
...unbeaten records snapped: tennis, in a 5-4 hearbreaker to Yale; baseball, in a tough 3-1 loss to Columbia; and golf, to Princeto in the Big Three match. To make matters worse, The Crimson had to eat its words when a Yale lacrosse team we had described as "hapless" upended Harvard's squad...