Word: haplessness
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...even physical assaults on teachers can be psychologically less wounding than the frustrating fact that teachers feel unable to do enough that is constructive and rewarding in their classrooms. Whether it is blackboard jungle, red-tape jumble, a place of learning or a collective holding pen for the hapless young, the modern classroom, teachers claim, is out of teachers' control. Some reasons...
...swayed by fraternal feelers from North Korea; they proposed, among other things, a bilateral conference of students of the two countries. The army, which had stood neutrally by as Rhee was toppled, suspected subversion. On May 16, 1961, a group of officers staged a bloodless, predawn coup against the hapless Chang government. Among the junta's leaders, soon to emerge at the top: Park Chung...
...summoned some anti-ERA legislators to his bedside, where he was recuperating from a strained back, and asked them to reconsider. The feminists and their supporters, including six busloads of burly male Steel workers, roamed the halls of the statehouse in Springfield. Lois Anne Rosen of Chicago collared her hapless representative, Robert Krska, in the corridor and demanded: "How can you be an American and be against equality?" In a weak attempt at humor, Krska mumbled, "Maybe we shouldn't have given you the vote," and then slipped away through the back hallways...
...actual advice, however, can be refreshingly blunt. Bill, 34, tells her that he has just quit a good job on impulse. Eager for disapproval, he asks Grant: "When will I grow up?" "Well," chuckles the psychologist, "that's a good question for all of us." She calls the hapless Bill immature and masochistic for quitting before lining up another job. "Never throw out the dirty water until you have clean water," she says. Grant is just as tough on Donna, 26, who complains that her husband goes to topless bars. Grant explains that men derive natural pleasure from visual...
...Cuba's single refugee embarkation port of Mariel, 27 miles west of Havana. Those skippers who are finally permitted to load and sail under Castro's slow and erratic selection of exiles will have greater U.S. protection on the sometimes perilous 110-mile voyage than those hapless earlier captains whose boats were swamped by high winds. The U.S. Navy has the landing ship Boulder and the amphibious assault ship Saipan patrolling the Florida Straits. The Saipan has 14 helicopters equipped for plucking accident survivors out of the sea. The Coast Guard has ten vessels and at least eight...