Word: hapless
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...organized a trade union group in New York to fight the Communists who dominated the Greater New York C.I.O. Council. At that time, Murray was pussyfooting around the Communist-C.I.O. situation. Instead of supporting Altman, Murray ordered him to disband his anti-Red group. Meanwhile, the Communists in hapless Sam Wolchok's union went their own defiant way; one Red local after another seceded...
...explains that he ate his Thursday evening supper in Eliot House (including a large helping of gravy) and by Friday morning was violently ill. The hapless Bartle was forced to call off his trip to Princeton, and did not fully recover until the following Monday...
Princeton's jayvees almost matched the performance of their Varsity counterparts Saturday, handing Ben McCabe's hapless charges a 35 to 0 shellacking on the field behind Palmer Stadium...
Colonel Lancer ignored the offer and looked at his watch. "It's getting late. You are welcome to come into the American sector any time-but not carrying arms." He shook hands with the hapless Russian and started back to headquarters. The lieutenant looked after him. "All I wanted was an afternoon of fun," he muttered miserably. "There, wouldn't have been any of this trouble if the woman had only been at home...
...forced upon them. Their masters and the masters' stooges behaved infinitely worse, earlier in the week, at the City Hall, where they had a coldly planned objective. There they clamped a final, successful siege on the building, drove out the City Assembly, and-incidentally but treacherously-seized 46 hapless West-sector police...