Word: haplessness
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...roommate called back, disgruntled at my lack of courage, and yelled at the hapless flunky on the other end of the phone. No, no, she was told, we could not have heat until it had been definitively proven with a heat reading that the room temperatures in our "zone" (that, no doubt, means Lowell House) were sufficiently low. Our hapless flunky on the other end of the line was of course happy to send someone over, but it might be four or five hours...
...hapless shuttle bus system...
Harvard scored all its points during the second and fourth quarters, with a stiff breeze at its back. Facing the wind, Harvard was as hapless as a dinghy in a monsoon...
...then, has Biden become a modern-day Jean Valjean, condemned to suffer permanently for the political equivalent of stealing a loaf of bread? Biden is more than a hapless victim, since his Gatling-gun rhetoric certainly compounded the problem. Still, the Biden brouhaha illustrates the six deadly requirements for a crippling political scandal...
...title comes from her childhood name, stripped away -- she was told "Anna Marie is dead" -- by John and Ethel Ross, who took her from her alcoholic father and hapless mother and forged her career. They abused her mentally, physically and sexually, living it up on her earnings while denying her even a mirror because it might make her vain. Yet Duke, 40, forgives them because they also made her an actress -- the craft that sustained her through four marriages, unwed motherhood and repeated suicide attempts triggered by manic-depressive illness that remained undiagnosed until her middle 30s. She looks back...