Word: haplessness
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When they first arrive at Pilot Hill, the hapless turkeys don't automatically eat and drink on their own initiative...
...come to conclude, as a community inuredto the desperation of being Harvard football fans,that there's only one thing that can make up forall the painful mistakes this team seems to makeup for over the years: beating a group of 45 guysfrom New Haven, as hapless and desperate forvictory as our own ill-fated Crimson...
...year age chasm between President-elect Bill Clinton and George Bush is the second largest in U.S. electoral history, surpassed only by the 27 years separating Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower. But this generational conceit is unlikely to be updated as a theme for Clinton's Inaugural Address. Imagine a hapless Clinton speechwriter struggling to reduce the baby-boomer life experience to tough-minded Kennedyesque cadences. No way would the incoming President dare tell the unvarnished generational truth: "Again, the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born after World War II, nurtured in prosperity, aroused by Vietnam...
...Running mates count. Retired vice admiral and former Vietnam POW James Stockdale is a bona fide hero and scholar. What he is not is someone who should be a heartbeat away from the presidency. After his hapless performance in the vice-presidential debate, Stockdale was barely heard from again. That was a blessing. A vice-presidential candidate ought to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the issues voters care about. By choosing Stockdale, Perot did what George Bush couldn't do: make voters forget their qualms about Dan Quayle...
Five years ago, Bob Gaudet entered his first season as coach of the hapless Brown Bears...