Word: hapless
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Adams inaugurated the competition with a 35 to 17 victory over Lowell, while in yesterday's games Eliot ran wild over a hapless Dunster quintet to the time of 75 to 39 and Kirkland forfeited to Lowell...
Dunster House remained undefeated Friday afternoon by beating the hapless Lowell House football team, 7 to 0, on Soldiers Field in the last House football game before examinations...
...telephone company had to hire special busses to get its operators safely to & from work, through the cordons of roistering, fanny-pinching Legionnaires. There were crap games on the streets, bonfires in hotel lobbies, impromptu band concerts all night. Sacks of water fell out of hotel windows on hapless pedestrians. No female was too formidably plain to be safe from leers or sudden noises behind...
...Hapless and Hopeful. To 209 colleges and universities the Army sent more than 100,000 soldiers for special studies-and positively no football. These A-12 trainees, said the Army, would have no time for football (not even, presumably, the kind that servicemen in the Aleutians are playing). Navy and Marine officials, on the contrary, okayed football for 77,000 bluejackets and leathernecks in 181 colleges with V12 programs. Colleges with no V12 windfall, with or without an A-12 tantalization, had the choice of supporting teams of 4-Fs and 17-year-olds or giving...
...also learned to love competition by practicing it; auto selling in those days was a murderous free-for-all. Angelenos still remember that even so noble-minded a salesman as Hoffman bought up wrecks of competing makes, regaled his customers with lurid tales about the fate of their hapless owners...