Word: woefulness
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...football has been a bettor's nightmare. After yet another round of upsets last week, the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Colts, both play-off participants last season, were in last place with a woeful total of only three victories in twelve games. Meanwhile, the surprising Green Bay Packers, dead last in their division last year, are now in a first-place tie with the Detroit Lions. As Joe Willie Namath might have said last week, after he threw a desperation pass that a Colt defender bounced volleyball fashion into the arms of Jet Receiver Eddie Bell...
...some decidedly grown-up fantasies, mostly having to do with her husband, a couple of former lovers, an enigmatic child (Catherine Harrison) and various manifestations of menace and death. When her husband packs her off to the countryside for a rest, the lady's predicament becomes even more woeful, as does Susannah York's performance, which gives way to a battery of twitches, groans and grimaces, interrupted by an occasional shriek of anguish. Like Director Robert Altman's previous film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Images has its own distinctive ambience - chilly, remote and for bidding. This...
Crowds at most Humphrey rallies have been sparse, usually a mixture of labor union members, blacks, Mexican-Americans and the elderly. They respond to Hubert with warmth and affection, but there is a woeful absence of the fiery spontaneity that greets a Wallace or a Kennedy or even, sometimes, a McGovern. An integral fixture of the national Humphrey campaign has been the potbellied union leaders who could double as precinct bosses. Their rye-and-gravel voices and center-city accents prompted some newsmen following Humphrey to invent a mythical character named Augie. Introducing Humphrey to union crowds, California Labor Chieftain...
...late have been making their own breaks, with Wills, Mota, Centerfielder Willie Davis and Third Baseman Rich Allen delivering key hits in game after game. The Giants, on the other hand, with Pitchers Gaylord Perry and Juan Marichal off their early-season form and the team batting a woeful .163 during their current losing streak, seem to have lost their momentum...
...size of the field, bettors needed a slide rule and a Ouija board to make any sense out of the odds. Eastern Fleet, for example, finished ninth in the Flamingo and then a few weeks later won the Florida Derby against substantially the same field. After running a woeful seventh in the Wood Memorial, Bold and Able won the Stepping Stone at Churchill Downs by three lengths. California-bred Unconscious, the betting favorite at post time, was unbeaten this year until an Eastern upstart named Jim French defeated him in the Santa Anita Derby. Impetuosity startled even his trainer when...