Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's JV football team may not have standing-room only crowds for every game played on their patch of muddy, battered earth at the far edge of Soldier's Field, but they certainly deserved one yesterday afternoon as the Crimson Cruised to a 47-0 victory over a hapless University of Connecticut team...
...Steve Pike's squad found out the hard way Saturday just how much separates the level of water polo play in the East from that of the West. Ranked number one in the nation last year and unlikely to be challenged this campaign. Stanford swam circles around a suddenly hapless Harvard team. The aquamen were happy to leave the pool alive, despite the 20-goal loss...
...They were much more together than we were, although they had three of four freshmen on the field," attributing the difference to a lack of high-level competition in practice and in the opening match against hapless...
Shouting imprecations and hurling bottles and stones, 200 ultra-Orthodox Jews laid siege to Jerusalem's major archaeological site last week, where the citadel of King David is believed to lie. As hapless archaeologists took cover, mounted police routed the bearded, black-robed zealots...
After a brief tour in the Burma police (like Orwell), Saki turns up in London at 29, doing political lampoons for the Westminster Gazette with parodies of Lewis Carroll and Kipling. In The Political Jungle Book, Lord Balfour, the hapless Prime Minister, is called "Sheer Khan't." Throughout Saki's life, Celtic mysticism and foreboding, plus a raw strain of patriotism, kept trying to break through the veneer of satiric wit and comic, cultured urbanity that made him celebrated as man and writer. Langguth notes that he knew "the frustration of an adventurer's soul locked...