Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is that penology (from the Latin poena, meaning penalty) is still an infant art given to fads and guesswork, like the 1920s reformers who yanked tens of thousands of teeth from hapless inmates on the theory that bad teeth induced criminality. Even now, penology has not begun to exploit the findings of behavioral scientists who believe that criminal behavior is learned, and can be unlearned with the proper scientific methods...
...widowers remarried quickly, sometimes within weeks of a wife's death. But aberrations were punished swiftly and, in at least one case, with terrible severity. During 1642, reported Bradford, "even sodomie and bugerie (things fearfull to name) have broak forth in this land, oftener than once." One hapless boy of "16 or 17," having confessed to bestiality with "a mare, a cowe, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey," was tried by jury and executed, but not before such animals as he could identify were slaughtered, in accordance with an injunction in the Book of Leviticus...
While Eliot was toying its way past hapless Quincy in a 12-0 yawner, surprising Mather House upended Lowell, 20-0, to claim second place and knock Lowell out of a tie for first and into a tie for third...
...CRIMSON, which entered the game undefeated, shredded the hapless Daily News defense, while cornerback Mike Wallace helped shut off the impotent Daily News offense, paced by Peter Diamond...
...close to wresting the trophy from America, and the preliminaries off Newport gave no indication that this year's races would break any precedents. The Aussies, scuttled in their 1962 and 1967 bids for the Cup, arrived late in Newport and looked unimpressive in their victory over the hapless France. Just a week before meeting Intrepid, Skipper Jim Hardy and Designer Alan Payne decided to move Gretel II's mast 5¾ inches aft. So major a modification, made so late in the contest, suggested that the Australians were less than prepared to take on Intrepid...