Word: hapless
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...Boat House that atmosphere and tradition has failed to hold on the water. Saturday afternoon, in New London, Conn., was a case in point. Parker's varsity eight flexed its cars shortly into the start of the 110th Harvard-Yale race and cruised up the Thames River, leaving the hapless Elis splashing it out some 11 lengths behind in a furious wake...
Lighter than helium and just about as dense, this adventure farce is a pleas ant enough way to pass a little time. Di rector Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio, Cartouche) has a blithe liking for unlikely situations and hapless heroics...
Steve Martin and Bob Mellen also had the hot stick, blitzing the hapless Williams defense for four and three tallies respectively...
...organized power of large, militant tenant groups is a mystery to me. His "balanced analysis" fails to show that the current economic crisis comes down hardest of all on the minimum living standards of poor and working people and only secondarily upon landlords and hapless local governments--while the profits of large banks and corporations are safeguarded at all (social) costs. Such a failure to target corporate profit leads only to a good deal of handwringing about "complexities" and to shallow, ideological hopes for improvement. Each of us grasps the deeper reality when she will, usually after further study...
...Brown lacrosse squad waltzed onto Soldiers Field yesterday with the intentions of two-stepping their way by a traditionally hapless Harvard team. The Crimson however entered with a floorshow of its own and nearly stunned the top team in New England before succumbing to two last fourth quarter tallies...