Word: haplessness
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...Oval Office must be asking himself similar questions these days. John W. Dean III told the Ervin Committee that some of Nixon's top aides, himself included, amused themselves by making lists of the White House's "political enemies" with an eye toward "screwing" the hapless listees. Dean released the lists, accompanied in some cases with brief annotations describing the sinister characteristics of the persons listed -- 'a real enemy', 'ties with the Muskie camp...
Kelley (see box next page) seems to have a far keener appreciation of the FBI'S nonpolitical role than did the hapless L. Patrick Gray III, who failed to get Senate confirmation as FBI director because of his cozy cooperation with the White House in the Watergate investigation...
...sugar-cured Shakespearean actor named Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) who sets out to eliminate the London critics who have mocked and vilified him during his career. He kills each of them in a quite elaborate and grisly fashion, every slaughter based on a scenario provided by the Bard: one hapless critic, for example, has his heart cut out (the pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice), another is stabbed to death on the Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen to Lionheart declaim passages from the pertinent play before...
...took them to his brother's apartment, where they found a bloody ax and the girl's glasses. The case should have ended there. It has not. Judge Pascal and most of the townspeople are still convinced of Leroy's guilt. Although out of prison, the hapless notary is still formally charged with murder. The charge will stick until the case is finally disposed of by the courts-and that may well take the better part of a year...
Five minutes later, Hagerty was at midfield, and working hapless Keith Stock, spiked a hard shot into the right side of the net. Attackman Jim Quinn, speeding up from behind the goal, popped it in at 10:31 to make...