Word: haplessness
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Germany's commander in chief, Erich von Falkenhayn, conceived of the Verdun battle as a device to draw in the French and "bleed their army white." He systematically refused to release reserve divisions, which on several occasions would have allowed hapless Crown Prince Wilhelm, who commanded the Verdun army, to win the battle and so bring an end to the carnage. Falkenhayn's plan specified that the French would lose three to five men for every German who fell. He died, after the war, still insisting that this is what happened, though the facts, brought to him from...
Brown was only two events as the varsity swimming team drowned the hapless Bruins in a 62-33 deluge last night at the L.A.B. Crimson coach Bill Brooks experimented freely with his juniors and sophomores in a meet which the Crimson won as easily as Ted Kennedy won a Senate seat...
...single, uniform tariff wall. At Whitehall's request, Christian Herter, President Kennedy's special representative for trade negotiations, hastened to London to discuss new tariff-cutting strategy between the two nations to increase Anglo-U.S. trade. Britain also started a round of conferences with its hapless friends in the moribund Outer Seven trade bloc, and on a flying trip to Rome, Harold Macmillan assured Italy's leaders of Britain's eagerness for continued cooperation with Europe...
...hapless Indians opened the game with a flurry of activity around the Crimson nets, but soon fell back into a tight defensive formation at their...
Jack Barnaby's squash team should pick up its fourth straight shutout and its seventh straight win against a hapless Amherst squad in Hemenway at 8 p.m. today. The Jefts have won only one of their seven games and should pose no threat to the power-packed Crimson...