Word: haplessness
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...hoist a 290-lb. foe and fling him to the mat, in a maneuver the Russian calls a "reverse body lift." To execute it, Karelin locks his arms around the waist of an opponent, then lifts the wrestler like a sack of potatoes and, arching his back, heaves the hapless fellow, feet first, over his head...
...Millennium Summit saw further eloquent critiques, particularly from African leaders, whose continent has recently seen the most dramatic failures of the blue-helmeted peacekeepers. They pointed to Rwanda, where the U.N. failed to act to stop the 1994 genocide, and to recent savagery in Sierra Leone, where some 500 hapless peacekeeping troops were taken hostage by a ragtag militia. Everyone from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to the major Western powers already agree on the need to dramatically overhaul the system. The question is whether they're willing or able to invest the political and material resources that would make...
...Regis and Kathie Lee" ended in a mawkish display of teary "remember when..." montages and good old-fashioned bad taste. Cringe-worthy as the finale was, it did mark an undeniable watershed in morning show history: Never again would Kathie Lee and cohost Regis Philbin exchange barbs with their hapless producer, discuss Kathie Lee's latest hairstyle or mull (without irony!) the media's indecorous obsession with the Gifford children...
...resort to ESPN2 for my Tour coverage (taped, of course, so as not to interfere with the very important synchronized swimming event scheduled earlier in the day). I found the network's recap stirring, if occasionally maudlin, and sniffled a few times as I watched Lance's hapless challengers fall to the wayside as the man of the hour pushed past them as if they were standing still...
...mundane problems. On the first day of the Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP), our leaders performed a skit for us. They played two people making seemingly innocent conversation--"hello," "how are you," "good to hear it," etc.--until: "So, where do you go to school?" Pause. "The Northeast." Eventually the hapless girl gets cornered and she coughs out the word Harvard with dread and embarrassment...