Word: haplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...
...Lowell House football squad scored its first triumph of the '49 season yesterday when it came from behind to overpower a hapless Dunster eleven, 19 to 6. It was the Funsters' fourth straight defeat...
...Cambridge, Mass., hapless Harvard took one of the worst beatings in its 75-year football history, a 54-14 drubbing by Army...
...York's Herald Tribune, in an editorial edged with alarm, noted that "twenty-five times an hour clear-spoken announcers will give the hapless traveler superlative descriptions of beer, cigarettes, salves, toothpaste, watches and so on." The Tribune did not look forward to the day when the hucksters will have perfected "the technique of making not-listening impossible...
...confusing second event, a hapless and inexperienced freshman squad galloped around the wrong trails, finally coming up with 41 points to Tufts' 17. The mixup on the trails occurred when flag markers for the varsity course were followed by more than half of the Crimson and Tufts freshmen. Although the distance was then too long for a true freshman course, comparative times determined the scoring...