Word: haplessness
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...knockout record climbed to nine, ten. then eleven. Cassius started spouting poetry and naming the round in which he would "annihilate" his hapless opponent...
...fairness, it must be recognized that the hapless professor would probably not have fared better at many private institutions who avow a more liberal philosophy, but the uneasy resolution of the case left unanswered the question of just what bounds circumscribe the freedom of inquiry and expression at the University...
...rumors were right. Forty-eight hours after Volovchenko, 46, made his Pravda debut, he was named Russia's farm boss, succeeding the hapless Konstantin Pysin, who had held the job for less than a year. During his brief tenure, Pysin tried his best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...into their belts for camouflage, and light field packs over their black peasant garb. "We were ordered out of the car," said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but we weren't frightened. We thought we would be on our way in a few minutes." This was not to be, for the hapless missionary families were caught in a roadblock of the Communist Viet Cong...
...that Dr. Leary did not regard the "tools of the mind" as important, and that he did not choose to communicate. But what is more appalling is the wholesale smuggling of a collection of indefensible notions onto the scene under the guise of intelligent discussion to justify Leary's hapless career...