Word: haplessness
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According to the preseason prognosticists, New Hampshire is not supposed be leading the division; Cornell is. But the Big Red have had a perfect season marred by a tie with hapless St. Lawrence, which stands only ahead of Brown in Division One with a 1-4-1 showing. The tie, against three victories, puts Cornell in third place behind...
Buffalo's Only Justification (O.J.) for existence broke the NFL record rushing in one season on Sunday against the hapless Jets. Simpson smashed Jimmy Brown's old standard and gained over 2000 yards for the season. He also break the banks in upstate New York when salary re-negotiation time around...
...This hapless group-which contributes, on the average, two students to every British classroom-compared unfavorably with the "ordinary" children in the sampling in virtually every way-physically, intellectually and socially. Some outstanding contrasts...
...favored University of California barely managed to hold the Easterners to a scoreless tie. Widely credited with developing the man-to-man defense, the triple and fake reverse, Neale went on to handle the Yale backfield under Head Coach "Ducky" Pond until 1941, when he took charge of the hapless Philadelphia Eagles. Neale rebuilt the team from football's perennial doormats into two-time National Football League champions (1948-49) and in 1967 was elected to football's Hall of Fame...
...likely to ask that Ehrlichman's trial be severed from that of the other break-in defendants, a tactic that he has used effectively in the past. On one notable occasion, Ball successfully defended a land developer accused of bribing two L.A. harbor officials; tried separately, the hapless officials were found guilty of accepting the bribes. In recent years Ball has developed something of a side specialty in political bribery cases. "It got so bad for a while," he chuckles, "that my friends would say that politicians wait before taking a bribe to see how heavy my schedule...