Word: haplessness
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...before the game that "soccer people will know that this is not a one-man team." Besides the four goals which the rest of the team scored, Harvard dominated the game at all positions. The Crimson made the opposition look weak, but amaxingly enough Cornell was not playing the hapless socoer the score indicated until bad demoralization set in half way through the third period. Even then the Big Red was able to rouse itself enough to score its lone goal against Crimson substitutes in the fourth quarter...
...Yankees are undoubtedly the strongest-hitting Yankee team since 1939 -when Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Bill Dickey & Co. lowered the boom on hapless Cincinnati in the World Series, won in four straight games. Only three players hit over .300-Elston Howard (.353), Mickey Mantle (.317) and Johnny Blanchard (.305)-but Roger Maris slammed a record 61 home runs, Mantle hit 54, and no fewer than six Yankees hit 20 or more. So powerful was the Yanks' new Murderers' Row that First Baseman Bill Skowron (28 homers) found himself batting seventh in the lineup...
BRATTLE: Another episode from the New Wave's chronicle of that peculiarly post-war phenomenon, the Aimless Man, "Breathless" stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as, respectively, a hip thug and his hapless American moll. The New Yorker found it "brilliant"; the Crimson, merely "worth seeing." Evenings...
Hearst haunted the sets of Davies pictures, giving two dozen orders a minute to hapless directors; and after Norma Shearer managed to beat out his protégée for a part, Hearst told his editors from coast to coast never to mention Norma's name in print. With uncanny foresight, Hearst papers could be counted on for banner headlines such as MARION DAVIES' GREATEST FILM OPENS TONIGHT...
...China's leaders these days no longer talk of the great leap forward, but of the "law of undulating progress." It means, presumably, that every economic leap is inevitably followed by a backward stagger. Most of China's hapless millions were wondering when the staggering would stop and the leaps begin...