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Next day the Baltimore Colts stampeded over the hapless Cleveland Browns. Led by End Bubba Smith, the Colt defense blocked two field-goal attempts, intercepted three passes and smeared Brown Quarterback Bill Nelsen four times. The big difference, though, was Colt Running Back Don Nottingham, a squat (5 ft. 10 in., 210 Ib.) rookie from Kent State who was the 441st of the 442 players picked in last year's pro football draft. Called in to replace injured Norm Bulaich, "Bowling Ball" Nottingham rolled for 92 yds. and two touchdowns as the Colts outclassed the Browns...
Without straining themselves, Harvard's skaters outshot the hapless Cadets, 48-16, and built up a 4-0 lead before slacking off in the third period...
...party. He was the only delegate, for example, to bring up the embarrassing point that on the very day the U.N. was beginning a debate on disarmament, the newly admitted Peking regime had chosen to detonate a nuclear bomb. At a loss for an answer, the hapless Chinese delegate replied simply: "I denounce you." Baroody shot back: "This 'denounce'-this is no way to explain your case." Afterward Baroody shrugged: "Someone has to put them in their place...
...hunt, coyote-man was ecstatic. As Sanders explains it, "Manson carried this (Ken Kesey's initial acid experimentation) onward, making it evil, slowly changing the colors, the red tempura becoming dog blood, the acid test turning to psychedelic satanism, the filming of happiness turning to the filming of hapless murder of female Caucasians on the beaches of Southern California...
First, there was the case of Joe Kapp, the veteran quarterback whom the Patriots signed for a reported $130,000 last year to help change the team's losing ways. Kapp not only failed (the hapless Pats' record of two wins and twelve tosses was the worst in the National Football League), but when training camp opened last month, he pronounced himself unhappy with his contract and left the team. Meanwhile, Defensive End Phil Olsen, the team's No. I draft choice last year, announced that he had discovered a loophole in his contract; he quit...