Word: haplessness
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Probably because of the quality of their opposition, the Crimson racquet men did not play up to their par. It's fortunate for Tech that they did not, since even as it was only three of the hapless Engineers were able to win one game in the three-out-of-five game sets...
This set the stage for revenge: Charlie Ravenel paced Harvard to a 28-0 win over the hapless Elis in 1958; he turned in another sprakling performance the next year when the Crimson overwhelmed the Bulldogs 35 to 6. In 1960 Yale turned the tables again, as Jordan Olivar's unbeaten Elis poured...
...rough on them all. She ignored their requests if she chose to. When one patron lisped a request to her, she cruelly lisped in reply. When another singer turned sour in performance, Joan suddenly stood up in the back of the room and began to sing, vocally stabbing the hapless girl on the stage into silence...
...straight sour mash. When purist critics seek an example of everything that is corrupt about folk singing, they always pick on the hapless Kingstons. First off, the trio has made as much as $30,000 a week, and this is unforgivably crude. Next, they smooth down, harmonize, and slicken the lyrics, embellishing the whole with gimcrack corn. But, carping aside, the Kingstons are accomplished entertainers, and many of their critics, Johnny-come-latelies to purity, forget that they probably would never have heard of folk music if they had not been first attracted by a heel-stomping ditty rendered...
Against the barrage, hapless Jim Hagerty could only defend the program. "It was," he said, "a fair presentation, giving both sides of a controversy." Commentator Smith professed surprise; he thought the discussion was "a little overbalanced in favor of Dick Nixon," and that Hiss, as one of Nixon's "Six Crises," had every right to appear. At week's end, Dick Nixon, whose mail had ballooned after the show, asked rhetorically. "What does an attack by one convicted perjurer mean when weighed on the scale against the thousands of wires and letters from patriotic Americans...