Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buffalo's Only Justification (O.J.) for existence broke the NFL record rushing in one season on Sunday against the hapless Jets. Simpson smashed Jimmy Brown's old standard and gained over 2000 yards for the season. He also break the banks in upstate New York when salary re-negotiation time around...
...This hapless group-which contributes, on the average, two students to every British classroom-compared unfavorably with the "ordinary" children in the sampling in virtually every way-physically, intellectually and socially. Some outstanding contrasts...
...favored University of California barely managed to hold the Easterners to a scoreless tie. Widely credited with developing the man-to-man defense, the triple and fake reverse, Neale went on to handle the Yale backfield under Head Coach "Ducky" Pond until 1941, when he took charge of the hapless Philadelphia Eagles. Neale rebuilt the team from football's perennial doormats into two-time National Football League champions (1948-49) and in 1967 was elected to football's Hall of Fame...
...likely to ask that Ehrlichman's trial be severed from that of the other break-in defendants, a tactic that he has used effectively in the past. On one notable occasion, Ball successfully defended a land developer accused of bribing two L.A. harbor officials; tried separately, the hapless officials were found guilty of accepting the bribes. In recent years Ball has developed something of a side specialty in political bribery cases. "It got so bad for a while," he chuckles, "that my friends would say that politicians wait before taking a bribe to see how heavy my schedule...
...food inhalation shows symptoms that are easy to recognize, if a doctor or bystander knows what to look for. The hapless diner is suddenly unable to breathe, talk or cough. A panicky struggle may ensue, as he tears at the lower throat or upper chest. He quickly becomes blue in the face and collapses to the floor or into his plate. Without proper help, death-from lack of oxygen-occurs in four or five minutes...