Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hapless losers managed three shots in the final frame, but no goals. The closest they came was in the final minutes, when Engineer goalie Jeff Singer fired a Gilman clear--a full-field pass--into the Harvard end. The ball eluded Crimson netminder Ken First and rolled into the crease. An MIT attackman struggled furiously in the mud to shovel the ball into the net, but First got it first, diving back into the goal mouth and clamping the ball with his stick...
Well, the day, which was sunny, and the meet, which was a laugher, were just right for flexing muscles: Harvard's undefeated track team thrashed a hapless Yale squad yesterday, 114-40, in sundrenched Soldiers...
...gigantic wake, the kind oarsmen stop for in practice, missed the Cadet shell but broadsided the hapless Crimson eight. By the time the heavies had wiped the water from their eyes, the Cadets had cruised by to another half-length lead...
...kingdom to come to America to fulfill his life's burning ambition--to beat America's greatest matmen. The Prince uses extra-professional tactics which some whimpering idiots claim to be unethical. Before a match, for example, he sometimes goes into a trance and puts a spell on his hapless opponent. Other times he makes balls of fire emanate from his fingertips. He has been known to burn the eyes out of the sockets of his helpless victims...
This bit of crepuscular enlightenment is Robinson Crusoe glazed with contemporary revisions. Here a hapless Crusoe (Peter O'Toole) is portrayed as an overbearing racist. He may be clever enough at fending for himself alone on the island, but human companionship brings out the worst in him. When Friday (Richard Roundtree) and some cannibal friends wash ashore on "his" island, Crusoe dispatches them one by one. Soon only Friday is left, and Crusoe is about to slay him when the black man instinctively adopts the one pose that will save him from the white man's wrath...