Word: haplessness
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...aquamen seem assured of boosting their season's record to 10-0 over the weekend. Friday evening they invade Baltimore to meet NCAA Division III powerhouse Johns Hopkins, before journeying to the City of Brotherly Love for the yearly laugher against a hapless University of Pennsylvania squad Saturday...
...search of the unlucky number 13--that's the situation for the hapless Harvard hoopsters as they carry a 12-game losing streak over from the pre-exam disaster slide...
Finding a safe landing field in the U.S. on the return run is not easy either, but more and more crude landing strips have appeared in rural areas in the South. One pair of hapless smugglers this month made it all the way into the U.S. only to land in a Florida pasture being used by local politicians for a turkey shoot. The pilot was promptly arrested. But for those who make it in safely, and most do, the payoff is high. A pilot can pocket $50,000 for one trip. Ten tons of marijuana, if landed safely, immediately becomes...
Harvard never really had to play full throttle in the game against the hapless Eastern Nazarene five as coach Carole Kleinfelder substituted freely. Captain Caryn Curry, who is prone to understatement, said afterwards, "It's hard to play all out in a game like this. We just played well enough to beat them...
...they faced one of the best, the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins, who featured a couple of unknowns named Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito. While the capacity Boston Garden crowd (yes, there was a time when Bruins fans did show up for the games) laughed, the "hapless"--as every sportswriter east of the Yukon described them--Isles scored five consecutive goals, then held on for a sloppy, hilarious, transcendental, season-salvaging...