Word: haplessness
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...fact, the Crimson and the Bruins appeared quite uninterested in the fact that both their Ivy seasons were on the line. A pair of hapless offenses gave the ball back and forth for more than half the game before a ballcarrier finally visited the end zone...
...also rare, if not utterly absent, in the conjoining of the Carlyles and the Mills, although these marriages were fruitful in other respects. During the Carlyles' 45-year relationship, Jane Welsh indefatigably cosseted her historian husband, screening him from "tiresome visitors, hapless servants, bedbugs, maddening noises." At the same time, she managed to write thousands of witty and reflective letters to her husband and friends that count among the best in the English language...
...Salyut 7, launched with great fanfare in April 1982, is the most sophisticated so far; weighing some 40 tons and outfitted with three docking ports, the beetle-shaped craft is designed to serve eventually as the core of a much larger complex. Two members of last week's hapless team, Vladimir Titov and Gunady Strakalov, were forced to return to earth after only 48 hours last May because of docking problems. This time, the crew was on its way to take over from Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Alexander Alexandrov, who have been aboard the space lab since late June...
...senior Dave Fasi, the Crimson rolled over both squads of hapless New Jerseyans. Fasi scored eight goals in the first half of the afternoon game against Montclair State. He opened the game's scoring at 0:22 of the first period, slamming the ball into the Montclair net after a nice set-up from junior Adam Button. For the rest of the game--and for the rest of the tournament--the 17th-ranked Crimson lived up to its billing as one of the East's best...
...perfect antidote to Paris--lucrative and enjoyable from the very first week. And in further contrast to laissez-faire France, the chew 'em up, spit 'em out nature of the fashion business in New York demanded discipline, organization and punctuality from a model. More significantly, however, after my hapless period in Paris I had resolved to stop sabotaging myself with sullenness and instead to practice stretching out a smile, no matter how I felt inside. A silly idea, perhaps; but looking back, I believe it had a catalytic effect on the people around me, which in turn made it easier...