Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...providing a baby boy who had been bought from a doctor in the Xinjiang region. Boursicot claimed that he did not discover the truth until he was arrested by French intelligence agents on charges of espionage. After hearing the strange case, seven judges last week sentenced both the hapless accountant and the former dancer to six years in prison. Their "son," Shi Dudu, now 20, was in the Paris courtroom at the time...
Cleavant Derricks, who won a Tony in the show-business musical Dreamgirls, finds a kind of heroism as Big Deal's hapless gang leader, a onetime boxer who keeps getting knocked down by life and rising to scrabble anew. His Dreamgirls partner Loretta Devine brings off an almost impossible mix as a housemaid duped into abetting the robbery: she is sexy, touchingly innocent, screamingly funny and, perhaps most astonishing in a feminist era, inoffensively but decisively dumb...
Indeed, yesterday's boos were almost festive. The 34,764 onlookers seemed to share the common misery of having to root for the hapless Red Sox. As they booed, they laughed about what a lousy season it was going...
...super-hecklers thought that the hapless audience might have been persuaded by the scoundrel, so they took it upon themselves to protect the innocents. This kind of political elitism has no place in a free society with mass education, let alone in a university...
...Everybody knows that the National League had a great class of pitchers last year. There was Orel Hershiser's 19-3 record; John Tudor's 1.93 ERA; and Rick Reuschel's valiant performance for the hapless Pirates. But no one has thrown a nohitter in the Senior Circuit since September, 1983. Ten points if you can name the artist of that masterpiece...