Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressagent Russell Birdwell got in early with a stop-the-atom-bomb-test editorial for which the Military Order of the Purple Heart bought the space, giving Copywriter Birdwell a mammoth byline. Headline: WHERE ARE WE GOING? Hapless newspaper and magazine executives only wished they knew...
Driving Cambridge-ward down a Dorchester bill in the wee, pre-dawn hours one night, a Yardling was halted by a flashlight attached to a police-man. After submitting to a tirade, the hapless student insisted that he had bought the car while stationed in Texas, that he lived in New York, and that he went to school in Massachusetts...
That the win was the thirteenth of the season, (as against one defeat), made no difference to the Crimson; led by Wyndol Gray with 24 points and Lou Decsi with 21, the Stahlmen had little trouble with the hapless Engineers. The game was a fairly exact duplicate of the first contest between the two teams ten days ago, which the Stahlmen took by a 68 to 47 margin...
...Hapless, homeless little Nazis found a friendly light in an unexpected window last week. The Communist Party invited them to come in out of the cold...
With Lou Decsi's 23 tallies setting the pace, Coach Stahl's crack five extended its new winning streak to three in humbling the hapless Worcester Poly quintet by a score of 68 to 47 Wednesday evening before a crowd of 400 at the Indoor Athletic Building. The Jayvees made it a doubleheader as they rolled to a 54 to 34 win over the Lowell Textile School...