Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strain had become almost too much to bear, even the sympathetic bevy at the Vendome looked askance at the now bell-bottomed trousers of the hapless middles. But relief came at last as bales of shineless, creaseful trousers poured into the school; beaming faces flocked around the commissary, and departed, clutching madly at their proud new possessions...
...Philadelphia Phillies are the black sheep of the National League. Only once in 25 years have they finished in the first division, only once in seven years have they finished better than last. Last fortnight the League decided to lend no more money to the hapless Phillies, bought out the controlling stock of President and Mrs. Gerald P. Nugent, who in a decade had run the club $250,000 in debt...
...speedy second line, composed of Dick Harding, Johnny Burton, and Al Everts, will try to match the starting trio in scoring and the only question is how many points the team will score. Army is pretty hapless...
...first War Department statement on the ERC said that all men who started their second term before December 31 would be allowed to complete the term. A second order, directly contradicting the first, came out two weeks later, informing the hapless students that the date had been moved up from December 31 to January 27. In the interim, orders had begun to arrive to many students, only to have them rescinded when the later order was issued. Within the last two days, the War Department has again directly reversed itself, changing the date from January 27 back to December...
...destroyers and newly designed, highly efficient destroyer escorts (DEs), U.S. counterpart for Britain's corvettes, in transatlantic convoy. But the program as a whole is late. The destroyer-escort situation is worst, since only a handful have been delivered. As a result a single destroyer often convoys 15 hapless merchantmen across the Atlantic v. the ideal setup, which would be closer to one escort for every three freighters...