Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave the Frenchmen a lusty battle, but that was all. The critical match was the doubles: Tilden & Hunter v. Cochet & Borotra. The Frenchmen were not an efficient team; they bumped into each other and let several balls drop between them. Nonetheless, their individual brilliance conquered Ace Tilden and Hapless Hunter, 6-4, 6-8, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2. It was a melee that the fillers of Roland Garros Stadium did not soon forget...
...tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...
Thoroughly aroused, M. Poincaré then flayed those awaiting trial as "a hapless mixture of genuine separatists, theoretical autonomists, mere idealists, and dupes [of Germany...
...Many a hapless pilot has crashed, died in flames ; many a plane burst afire in midair. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, famed inventor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., believes the fire menace mastered. His company has developed a Diesel airplane engine. Fuel oil for Diesel engines is non-inflammable...
...into it" and the straggling columns of fours were straightened out, arms swung martially, heads were held proudly up and smiles of anticipation lit the men's faces. Then the whole spectacle was reduced to pathos, for the oncoming horsemen and women were scarlet-coated hunters pursuing a hapless...