Word: haplessness
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...word is out that while we were away, administrators and scientists found that Harvard's ivy also momentarily blinds oncoming motorists, causing countless accidents; drips poison from its leaves on hapless schoolchildren who happen to walk too near, and communicates herpes from room to room of the buildings on which it grows...
Penn has 16 starters back from last year's 1-6 squad (1-9 overall). Coach Jerry Berndt's first season with the hapless Quakers...
Some time-share management companies have gone bankrupt, leaving the hapless owners helpless. In picturesque Estes Park, Colo., the historic Stanley Hotel was converted into a time-share condo project, and more than 2,000 units were sold for $5.5 million. In 1979 James Quincy, a Colorado real estate promoter, stepped in and bought the company. The project went bankrupt in 1980, leaving the building effectively unmanaged until 2½ months ago, when it reopened under new management...
...genuine love of risk and an abiding faith in the value of competition, win or lose. He trusts his own vision and scorns prudent measures like market research. He loves to cast himself as a hapless crusader or starry-eyed underdog, and revels in emerging as the triumphant idiot savant...
...York, which hosts one of the largest school systems to adopt a basic competency program, the outcry against the tests has focused inevitably on equal opportunity. The hapless 17-year-olds stuck in seventh grade for he third or fourth time, critics have cried, are being denied their rights under a system penalizing them for learning little from schools that can barely teach literacy. The perfectly serious effort to defeat the "right" to a high school diploma, even for someone who cannot read or write, baffled many equal opportunity supporters and did damage to equal opportunity as an ideal...