Word: hapless
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...Currier House we grant the distinction of being our fondest amusement. Each year, these hapless schlemiels manage to defy overwhelming odds and choke miserably. Squandering the legacy of a long-forgotten Marine Engineering Tutor, Currier's yachtsmen use their wondrous and speedy craft exclusively as a means to embarrass themselves. Nonetheless, their most remarkable achievement is not their genius for finding abjectly humiliating ways to lose, but their talent for having absolutely no fun in their attempts...
Only on Opening Day are all of baseball's ace pitchers in action. Roger Clemens. Dwight Gooden. Danny Jackson. Dave Stewart. Only Opening Day draws the president of the United States to Baltimore to watch the hapless Orioles...
...life for himself under the Ayatullah's threat of death. Would he hire guards, or remain in seclusion, or retreat to some distant land? Few held out any hope that Khomeini would simply change his mind because the real victims of the Rushdie affair were not only the hapless author and his wife but the 50 million citizens of revolutionary Iran. After a decade of terror and death, the country had seemed to be in the early stages of recovery. But by his actions last week Khomeini brought that healing process to a halt...
...Crimson, which was denied the Beanpot title by Northeastern on Valentine's Day, unleashed the brunt of its fury on a hapless Yale team, beating the Elis, 9-2, last night at Bright Hockey Center...
When the biggest hand of an operatic evening is not for the singers -- Leona Mitchell as the eponymous Ethiopian slave girl, Placido Domingo as her hapless Egyptian lover Radames -- but for towering sets and slick stage machinery, then the era of content-free opera is at hand. Under the artistic direction of James Levine and departing general manager Bruce Crawford, the Met has ( suffered from a hardening of its arteries, offering up one lumbering spectacle after another without much apparent thought as to whether they make artistic sense...