Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Witt is the first director to have emergency- management experience. And his 20-year friendship with the President has given Witt clout among Cabinet agencies with which his agency must coordinate $ emergency relief. But Witt has also won praise for his energetic efforts to reform and streamline the hapless agency. On his desk, he placed a warning, penned on a plain sheet of paper: WHEN ENTERING THIS ROOM, DO NOT SAY "WE'VE NEVER DONE IT THIS WAY BEFORE...
...baseball prowess beyond his years (or anyone's wildest dreams) to 12- year-old Henry Rowengartner (Thomas Ian Nicholas). As a result of a broken arm that heals eccentrically, he acquires a gift for throwing 100-m.p.h. fast balls, and he is quickly pressed into service by the ever hapless Chicago Cubs...
...elephants. Elephants? Bonner's subtitle, Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, constitutes false advertising since the book's sympathies lie with Africans who suffer at the hooves of elephants that trample crops, destroy property and kill natives. According to Bonner, elitist conservationists unleashed these malevolent beasts on hapless villagers when the World Wildlife Fund and the African Wildlife Foundation cynically pushed for an international ban on the sale of ivory in 1989 because it played well with sentimental American donors...
...Hapless Leeching Victim...
...National League expansion franchises, the Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins, as hapless as the 1962 New York Mets? (Not unless the Rockies persuade Marvelous Marv Throneberry to make a comeback...