Word: haplessness
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...their way into what was supposed to be a dual meet between the women's track teams from Harvard and Yale Saturday and outpaced their two Ivy rivals with 78 points. The Crimson, in its first meet of the outdoor season, followed in second with 46 points, and the hapless Bulldogs were leashed at 35 points and third place...
...good measure, last year's grueling road trips have disappeared. Cornell and Navy visit Cambridge this season, and the longest bus ride is a mere jaunt to New Haven, where the hapless Elis haven't had a winning season since 1963. Otherwise, Coach Alex Nahigian and his charges will travel to exotic colleges like MIT, Northeastern, Boston College and Tufts, and sit back while Army, Princeton, and Dartmouth charter their way to Soldiers Field...
...Geidt's paternal, befuddled Quince, Max Wright's scallion-chomping Flute and their cohorts dig up laughs you'd only guessed at, reading the play. But the young lovers, too, keep their scenes from bogging down into indistinguishable, interchangeable laments: Sloan's strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless Demetrius into a half-nelson, and literally dogs his path with a graphic spaniel imitation; Eric Elice and Marianne Owen as Lysander and Hermia separate "as may well be said becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid" before they fall asleep, roll towards each other and exchange places before waking...
...decisive events of the New Hampshire primary was the strange spectacle of an angry Ronald Rea gan confronting a flustered George Bush on the stage of the Nashua High School gym, while four other candidates jos tled behind them like hapless losers in a game of musical chairs. When the four stalked out, one of them, Representative John Anderson, summed up the group's protest: "The responsibility for this whole travesty rests with Mr. Bush." Countered Bush's New Hampshire campaign manager, Hugh Gregg, the next day: "We feel we were sandbagged...
...While there was no rekindling of the flames of "Trudeaumania" during the campaign, he racked up an impressive personal victory in his home district of Mount Royal in Montreal. He won a total of nearly 36,000, or 82% of the vote. Even before election day, his hapless Tory opponent, Harry Bloomfield, conceded: "Trudeau is brilliant and incredibly attractive. I don't expect to win. I'm not nuts...