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Just over a minute later Crimson Captain Greg Olson put it out of reach, sending first the puck and then himself, head first past a hapless Pearson Only the statistic cared about a final UNH goal with 39 seconds left...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Mighty Icemen Mow Down New Hampshire, 7-5 | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...only catch is that customers lose the lifetime free repair warranties that come with rented Bell System phones. Thus, when a customer-owned telephone breaks after the expiration of the warranty, which can last anywhere from 30 to 90 days on units already installed, the hapless subscriber has little choice but to unplug the device and take it to his local telephone company office for servicing. If the telephone is one of the Bell System's early models that does not disconnect from the wall with a modular plug, the customer may have to pay an additional steep charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Buy or Rent | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...hapless Jumbos, however, were not the finest opponents Harvard has faced, and after 64 minutes of waiting, the booters finally notched the game-winning goal...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Booters Roll Past Tufts Jumbos, 2-0, On Second-Half Goals by Kenworthy | 11/4/1982 | See Source »

...sang convincingly about the alienating effects of the cosmopolitan world, about hapless relationships and the paradoxes and perplexities of the urban landscape. He spilled his bitter criticisms of the idiosyncrasies and contradictions of society all over his albums. The music was harsh, the vocals were loud; the lyrics were biting...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Growing Up | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...exemplified by such pronouncements as: "I am heartsick that there may well be those persons of the masculine gender, who, lacking an intrinsic purity of character, may, by laborious effort, and much unseemly exercise of the lower ranges of the imagination, summon forth a prurient gratification, from these hapless pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Antimacassar | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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