Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the most stunning development of the weekend came when hapless Penn (1-22, 1-10) picked up its first win of the season against Dartmouth, behind a masterful showing from junior forward Deana Lewis...
...Hapless Penn (0-21, 0-9) continued its lonely sojourn in the Ivy League cellar, in spite of the stellar play of senior Natasha Rezek, who recorded her 13th double-double of the season against Brown...
...ANYONE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT it is like to work at TIME, Calvin Trillin's 1980 novel, Floater, is required reading. The story of a hapless writer at a national weekly newsmagazine suspiciously like this one, it skewers some of TIME's most revered traditions, including this very page. Though Trillin now tries to pretend that Floater is "made up," he in fact gathered inside information during nearly three years on TIME's staff. In 1960, after graduating from Yale and serving in the Army, he joined the Atlanta bureau, reporting on the civil rights movement. He then moved...
...however, Harvard must be the heavy favorite for both games. The Crimson is in top form, and neither Cornell nor Columbia is a particularly tough opponent. The memory of its December 28 loss to CalPoly San Luis Obispo, one of the nation's most hapless programs, is not easily erased, though. Harvard still has something to prove...
Unfortunately for Benton, sophomore guard Mike Scott had no intention of allowing such a scenario to unfold. Scott rejected Benton's jumper and sent the ball into the hands of freshman point guard Tim Hill. Hill raced down the floor and, after juking a hapless Vermont defender out of his shorts, layed the ball in with ease at the buzzer...