Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the affair at the Stadium, the issue was never in doubt in Medford Saturday when the Varsity soccer team steamrollered to its first victory of the season by the score of 7 to 0 against a hapless squad from Tufts. Counting goals in every period, the Crimson kept almost continuous control of the ball in successfully opening its 1947 season...
...were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange for a Western wink at Moscow's absorption of millions of hapless non-Russians and 275,000 square miles of territory for greater "security"), the Kremlin was expected to cooperate in the world's steep climb back toward recovery and peace. The U.N. Charter had been signed in such unrealistic hope. For One World was the 20th Century's pathetic...
...years, hapless straphangers have protested in vain. Chicago's traction troubles are rooted in corrupt politics and civic inertia. But last week Chicagoans were no less amazed than if they had suddenly seen the Wrigley Building afloat in Lake Michigan. The "traction problem" was apparently solved at last...
Last week the hapless St. Louis Browns, deep in the American League cellar, signed up Negroes 3 & 4. Ex-G.I.s Willard Brown and Henry Thompson were leading hitters on the Negro Kansas City Monarchs. In the first five games with the Browns, they got an unspectacular four hits between them. The crowd-pulling novelty was about over; Negroes would stand or fall as ballplayers, which was the way they wanted...
...intermission time Madame Paray rushed over to him and screamed: "How dare you come here? I won't stand for your presence!" Then she slapped his face. From all sides his old enemies-conductors, impresarios and artists-closed in, eager to settle old scores. They pummeled the hapless critic, and kicked him right into the street...