Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sealed Cargo (RKO Radio), a low-voltage drama of the high seas, pits some hapless Nazis against steel-jawed Dana Andrews, probably the most talkative down-Easter ever to ship out of Gloucester. Headed for the Newfoundland fishing banks, Andrews is still trying to sort out the spies among his crew when he comes across a disabled mother ship for German U-boats disguised as a Danish schooner...
...other baseball action, Adams dropped a 7 to 6 squeaker to Dudley for the Gold Coasters' first loss. Kirkland pounded out a 10 to 2 victory over hapless Lowell...
...varsity lacrosse team has the habit of playing either very good or very bad lacrosse. It could play any brand of ball this afternoon on M.I.T.'s Briggs Field and probably trounce the hapless Beavers. Coach Bruce Munro, however, would like his squad to settle down, since only three days remain before the crucial home game with Williams...
Must your newspaper's critics relentlessly follow their hapless brethren down the road of diluted rot where there is no integrity, no craftsmanship, no clear and vivid expression and where measurements and analyses serve alone to convey the vanity of that elegant man of letters who with perfect taste in every line prides himself in being above his work? Or can the CRIMSON recognize an artistic aim and rise to the occasion of true criticism by doing justice to actor, playwright and their readers who willingly subscribe five cents daily for enlightenment and ask so little in compensation. David...
...rowed in the Lady Margaret boat which lost to the Crimson in the Grand Challenge Cup finals at Henley, England, last July. Harvard didn't have very much trouble in its overseas races but this time the foreign opposition may be more formidable. Assuming that Oxford wasn't totally hapless, Cambridge must have something, else it wouldn't have beaten the Dark Blue by some 15 lengths...