Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saltaholic?" the insinuating voice asks, as the TV camera eye interrupts the hapless soul at his repast and observes him dousing dish after dish with a blizzard of deadly sodium chloride. It is a scare-the-consumer ad for NoSalt, a brand-new, fast-selling salt substitute. And a prime-time sign of the times. For salt has just pushed to the fore as the guilty food of the year- and maybe of the decade...
DIED. William DeWitt, 79, hustling, persuasive baseball-club owner and executive, affiliated with nine pennant winners in both leagues, who began his 50-year career selling soda in St. Louis' Sportsman's Park; in Cincinnati. In 1944, DeWitt, general manager of the hapless St. Louis Browns, helped drive the team to its first and only pennant. His astute trades while general manager of the Cincinnati Reds helped "the Ragamuffin Reds" clinch the pennant in 1961, the club's first in 21 years...
Although he scored no goals. Miller was clearly one of the offensive stars of the game. Neatly wiping out several opponents with well-placed hook slides. Miller physically intimidated the hapless. No Jerseys and prompted one player to note. "Ain't nobody gonna forecheck Steve...
...Leonid Ilyichev. Said he: "We resolutely oppose the efforts forts of of the the NATO bloc, and of of the U.S. in particular, to put on yet another political farce." The torrent of Western condemnation, interrupted only sporadically by East bloc protests, continued for 4½ hours before the hapless presiding chairman, Jozef Wiejacz, Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister, abruptly recognized a Czechoslovak motion to adjourn the day's session, a move made presumably at Soviet insistence. Wiejacz's parliamentary maneuver provoked even more vituperation from the West. Snapped French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who was next...
...Anselms and lost by a relatively slim six point margin. However, there have been too many contests--like last Saturday's 78-45 defeat at the hands of a Yale squad with a decidedly unimpressive 6-10 record--in which mediocre squads have totally annihilated a hapless Harvard five...