Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, Princeton demolished Harvard's hopes for the Ancient Eight crown. Seeking revenge, Harvard fought the Tigers hard to the end this year, only to lose the deciding final relay by 0.04 seconds. Adding insult to injury, the traditionally hapless Cornell team stunned the aquamen, in another last-relay victory...
Several of Kennedy's dozen hapless challengers in this superbaby of Democratic primaries have somewhat more to say, and more ground on which to say it. They, unlike him, have served in elective state office. They have drafted and lobbied for legislation that has helped the homeless, the poor, and the un-rich. They know exactly what federal programs they want cut, which beefed up, and which reformed...
...ELSEWHERE, somewhere in the desert wasteland outside Solong, the wandering Prophet Motive (Leonard Dick) and his hapless sidekick Ahmed A'Boubou (Jeffrey Korn) are way ahead of their time, preaching the good 20th century values of capitalism and personal repression. Dick's enormous birdnest of a white wig and his well-developed evangelistic twang are all-too-familiar and consequently quite effective. Their energetic duet, "Moral Hygiene," is yet another showstopper...
...already clear that it would be one of those nights, very similar to the contest earlier in the season when Harvard (now 7-6-1 overall) blasted the same hapless Eagle squad (1-8) by a score...
...mind that his giddy young wife lies dead on the floor, accidentally slain by him as she prankishly impersonated a ghost. What really inflames him is that the breakfast toast has gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells his dupe, with a dismissive flourish, "Throw the toast to the hens on your way to prison...