Word: haplessness
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Sudden Suspicion. Seeking out West Berlin relatives or friends of the hapless students who were now trapped in the East, the Travel Bureau collected photographs of colleagues they knew wanted to escape. They then hunted down West Berliners who resembled their fellow students, bluntly asked to borrow the lookalikes' identity papers (which had the owners' photographs attached) so that their classmates could "legitimately" cross at the border checkpoint while posing as West Berliners. The ruse was highly successful until the Vopos became suspicious of so many West Berliners in the East, barred residents of the free sector from...
After a wait of nearly a year, Cuba's Communist regime put on trial the 1,179 hapless exiles captured in last April's abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. In sharp contrast to the televised circus of the men's initial interrogation, the trial was held in secret behind the walls of Havana's Príncipe prison. The regime posted no formal charges, announced merely that a five-man military tribunal would act as both judge and jury. No friends or relatives of the men were allowed in to see what went on. Only Cuban...
...actuality, the ball was rounder than the final score might indicate. When one of the five WHRBies who remembered to show up for the game was drafted in a touching halftime ceremony, the hapless Radiomen engaged the services of varsity football fullback Bill Grana...
Scarcely more than a decade ago, Hartford was a hapless little rich boy, born with a silver cash register in his hand, who rang up No Sale with every transaction in life. Like a busy householder trundling down the aisles of the A.& P. on a Saturday afternoon, he wheeled the sheeniest photographers' models through the aisles of the shiniest cafes and the columns of the gossipiest peepholers. He exhibited no head for business, no great ambition to further the family fortunes, no inclination to develop his intellect beyond the requirements of a bachelor's degree at Harvard...
...Romeo (John Stride) jumps and pants in reckless adolescence. His Juliet (Joanna Dunham) is the giddy, giggling, starry-eyed and breathless hoyden she ought to be. This is, after all, not an impulsive love between maturing young adults but a doomed one between hapless children. "These violent delights have violent ends," observes Friar Laurence...