Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...golf is human nature at its worst. Last year a guy almost beat a hapless Canadian goose to death on a golf course because he flubbed one of his shots...
...Saturday's showing is any indication of the season that awaits the Crimson, 1987 could quickly become a distant memory.CrimsonMary L. NaberTAKE DOWN: Junior CORY COSTANZO with the help of junior JASON METAKIS lands a powerful tackle on a hapless Columbia kick returner...
What enabled the Crimson to endure mental errors and occasional sloppy play to post its most lopsided win since its Ivy championship campaign of 1987? Give the nod to a defensive unit that pressured hapless Columbia quarterback Bobby Thomasson into three interceptions-two by junior corner Glenn Jackson-and a 9-of-26 afternoon...
...Hours after Diana's death, a sobbing woman outside Kensington Palace shouted, "You're horrible!" at TV cameramen. A man-on-the-street interview by some hapless reporter yielded, "You people still at it? Why don't you just p___ off?" At the beginning, it was us vs. you: us, the decent public; you, the murderous scum known as the press...
...stop gabbing about himself long enough to ask a question is worthy of Evelyn Waugh. In Across the Lake, naive young Americans look for local color in an unnamed strife-torn country that could be Guatemala. Their detachment from reality echoes Paul Bowles' brutal stories of hapless adventurers...