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While 1,000 reunioners and other interested spectators watched, the Elis managed to commit only four errors, while the hapless varsity made five...
Toward the end of last season, after two years in the Army, he got a chance with the St. Louis Browns (now Baltimore's Orioles). Turley won only two and lost six with the hapless Browns, but his strike-out record was impressive: 61 in 60 innings...
Unable to command enthusiasm, the Communist compel obedience. The hapless Chinese cannot speak his resentment publicly or before his child, who has been taught to spy on him, or in front of a friend, who may be an informer. He can display his disapproval only by sullen compliance or by loafing on the job. The opposition is real but unorganized: a silent resistance that shows up not in guerrilla successes but in production failures...
...seemed doubtful that any fair military court could come to a sharper decision, or avoid creating some kind of military limbo in which such hapless men as Colonel Schwable would be compelled to wander, unpunished but unloved, for the rest of their lives...
Bock-less Penn faces hapless Harvard in their first meeting of the 1953-54 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League season in Philadelphia at 8 p.m. tonight. For both teams, victory is a must; for the visitors who have lost their last eight in a row it is highly unlikely...