Word: haplessness
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...asked him to return the money. When Grassi could fork up only $50,000 of it, Allen worried for three weeks, finally confessed to American Express officials, and then to the police. Had Allen given Grassi the money to speculate on promise of a share of the profit? The hapless Allen would only say, "I had no idea he was a gambler . . . He lived at the Georges V Hotel. How could I have any suspicion that he wasn't honest...
Place at Home. The man who at Maryland once rolled up a 74-13 score on a hapless Missouri team coached by his old master, Don Faurot, sat through a season of agonizing (2-7-1) defeat. He learned to tone down his blasts, worked so hard at his job that he landed in a hospital, gradually won a place at his old school. This season, with 24 returning lettermen, was to be the year for North Carolina. But fortnight ago, his huge 240-lb. body covered with a red rash, Jim Tatum was rushed to the university hospital. Doctors...
Innumerable letters from outraged citizens and hapless victims pour in to British M.P.s demanding protection from the suffocating grip of bureaucracy. Sometimes the press takes up specific cases with a hue and cry, like that of Crichel Down, where a farmer defied the War Department's right in time of peace to hold onto land commandeered in time of war. or pleads for a Mrs. Christos, who went to jail for earning milk money for her children while on the dole (TIME, June 15). But often an M.P. has either too much work or not enough spunk...
Loudspeakers wake the populace at 5:30 a.m. daily for calisthenics, summon the hapless inhabitants to compulsory afternoon political meetings. Diversions are few. Hanoi cinemas now show only Russian and Red Chinese films, and there is talk of abolishing the traditional Vietnamese theater because, in the words of one official, "it links the people with the past." Hanoi has only two newspapers, one run by the party, the other by the labor union...
Each week hundreds of such hapless "volunteers" are packed into open trucks and, guarded by African "boss boys" with stout leather sjamboks (whips), shipped to distant farms for three or six months, often unable even to notify relatives or employers that they are leaving. South African police instituted the system in 1954, but its workings were not generally known, even in South Africa, until 33-year-old Johannesburg Lawyer Joel Carlson started a series of habeas corpus actions fortnight...