Word: hapless
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Heads I know, did roll, starting, I assume, with those at the hapless telegraph office of Loyang, which had let slip to America the embarrassment of death in Honan. But lives were saved -and saved by the power of the American press...
...hapless California officials who are now moving gingerly to bow to the will of the majority cannot, however, fail to hear the clash of other voices. Indeed, there was a tinge of class conflict in the campaign for Proposition 13, with possible portents of racial trouble in the simmering summer months. By and large, homeowners from the middle and upper classes, justly aggrieved by their rising tax burden, had led the tax revolt. But worried blacks and Hispanics in California feared, with some cause, that as government turned more frugal, they would be hurt the most...
...hapless Bruins encountered the famous Montreal jinx, as the Canadiens seemingly invincible on their home ice, outskated the visitors from start to finish in a penalty-ridden contest...
...Crimson exploded for a school record 29 goals and attackman Mike Faught became the latest in a long line of stickmen to tie a school record with 11 points as Harvard overwhelmed the hapless Ephmen...
JUST THEN, a woman carrying a rolling pin walked into the room. Obviously distraught, she began pummelling the hapless comic with the kitchen implement, and screaming printable obscenities...