Word: haplessness
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Shouting imprecations and hurling bottles and stones, 200 ultra-Orthodox Jews laid siege to Jerusalem's major archaeological site last week, where the citadel of King David is believed to lie. As hapless archaeologists took cover, mounted police routed the bearded, black-robed zealots...
...troublemaker begins his career on the New England coast with the purchase of an aging trained bear called State O' Maine and a 1937 Indian motorcycle with sidecar. The seller is a vagabond named Freud, who after World War II lures Win into the Viennese hotel deal. The hapless entrepreneur is blinded by a radical's bomb and winds up at the third Hotel New Hampshire, in Maine, bought by his surviving children. Only the children do not have the heart to tell him that the resort has been turned into a rape crisis center; his life...
...equally hapless citizen was once told by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable." Until recently American newspapers were delightfully unrestrained when it came to abuse; a New England journal greeting Jefferson's election, for instance, with particular enthusiasm...
...king's wishes. By attributing the onus for contested British actions--particularly the Stamp Act. Townshend Duties and Tea Act--to Hutchinson and not the king, the patriots convinced themselves (incorrectly, as it turned out) that Hutchinson was acting on his own and out of control to oppress the hapless American subjects. As Shaw writes...
...truck twixt the shadow and the reality, Shepard seems to be saying, and it's not a question of going over the deep end since there really isn't any difference between the two. The line between sanity and reality is just a membrane--and we are all the hapless victims of osmosis...