Word: hapless
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While Kaminsky says Summers was oblivious to the stricken senior, Abel’s flip-book style series of photos shows that Summers did turn his head to look at Kaminsky. And University Provost Stephen E. Hyman and several others of the powers-that-be did ask if the hapless senior was ok. “I was fine,” he promises...
...Crimson does prevail, and then finds its way past a hapless Catamounts squad the next afternoon, it will see its post-season path cleared considerably...
...Hidden Face of Le Monde, by veteran journalists Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen. Their allegations were sensational: a corrupt relationship with the head of the police union; gifts to Colombani for giving media training to a mayor; a pattern of blatantly favoring certain politicians (such as hapless 1995 presidential candidate Edouard Balladur). In June Le Monde agreed not to proceed with libel lawsuits against the authors, who in turn agreed not to republish their book, but the damage was done. The paper's finances may be in worse shape than its reputation. It is carrying debt...
...everybody’s heard how he dead-lifted that hapless girly-man Gray Davis from office in an historic recall campaign, and promised to be The People’s Governor...
...Harvard’s season-opening 35-0 dismantling of hapless Holy Cross, both offense and defense wasted no time starting the year off right. Sophomore tailback Clifton Dawson proved his rookie season was no fluke, accumulating 184 yards on the ground and scoring three touchdowns, while the Crimson defense applied constant pressure to the Crusaders quarterback, forcing him to throw three interceptions and holding the team to 131 yards of offense...