Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rowing downstream into a slight cross-headwind, the Crimson decided to forego the sprint and conserve energy for Sunday's races, realizing the Compton Cup was safely in hand. The Crimson finished Saturday's race a solid length-and-a-half ahead of Princeton, with a hapless MIT trailing somewhere in Harvard's wake...
...marketing monster called Earth Day lumbers toward April 22, hapless journalists in its path are desperately dodging a barrage of press kits, news ( releases and alerts. Thousands of Earth Day happenings, from ladybug releases and the building of garbage monuments to corporate "We love the environment too" advertising campaigns, have become an undifferentiated blur as everyone tries to wave the green flag at once. Nobody is against Earth Day, but the very breadth of this looming mega-event raises the question: What's the point...
Loyola and Maryland are sure to mount more of an attack against the Crimson than did the hapless Minutewomen. The issue was never in doubt as Harvard quickly jumped out to a commanding 4-0 lead four minutes into the game...
Playing its best so far this season the Harvard softball team destroyed a hapless Cornell club squad, 9-3 and 11-1, with a potent offensive attack and strong performances on the mound Saturday at Soldiers Field...
...unusual protagonist for Anita Brookner, the * acclaimed British novelist who won the 1984 Booker McConnell Prize for Hotel du Lac. Most often she focuses her exacting eye on women, solitary spinsters picking their way through uneventful but carefully examined lives. Lewis Percy is reminiscent of all of those awkward, hapless English twits, those Lucky Jims who comically court failure in the farcical novels of Kingsley Amis, William Boyd and David Lodge. But though it has brisk satirical asides, Lewis Percy is a halfhearted comedy. We cannot sympathize for long with so ineffectual a hero, but Lewis is too decent...