Word: haplessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mocked. None of the dynamic exaltation of the Who and their fans for the Pinkies. To Waters, the audience is just another barrier, another obstacle to his exquisitely indelicate communion with his inner being. "So ya/ Thought ya/ Might like to go to the show," he sneers at some hapless...
...hapless Big Red simply could not recover from their sluggish first half and gaped while the hoopsters ran circles around them, grabbed a total of 20 steals, and riddled the Cornell zone defense with bullet-like drives to the basket...
...fact, all of the "hapless and much maligned" Crimson breaststrokers more than held their own yesterday against B.U. opposition. Gwen Knapp placed eighth and Caroline Adams ninth in the 50, and Harvard competitors grabbed fifth, sixth and tenth in the 100-yd. event...
...where, oh where can that winning touch be? Luck deserted the hapless women hoopsters again last night in Providence as the Brown Bruins prevailed...
Some things about reading period are inevitable. The professor who you thought was so "dynamic" reminding you in the flourish of his last lecture that "extension is not a word in my vocabulary." There is always the hapless search for the book, first in the upstairs catalogue, then in the bowels of the Union catalogue; the trek to Countway or Tozzer or some other library in the hinterland and, finally, the gaping hole on the shelf. The time spent on the second floor of the Coop, pawing the record racks in search of a disc that you don't really...