Word: haplessness
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...story of this game was the Crimson's absolute domination of the hapless Crusaders...
...broader conflagration. For years, Yugoslavia was the acceptable face of communism: estranged from Moscow, a pioneer of peaceful coexistence with the West, a country whose rugged Adriatic coastline attracted tens of thousands of vacationers. But last week that idyllic image was irreparably shattered. After three months of ethnic skirmishing, hapless Yugoslavia erupted in the first full-scale war in Europe since 1945. The fighting between federal forces and breakaway Croatia gave Europe and the world beyond a stark reminder of the region's capacity for violence...
...Hong Kong rushed to withdraw their cash last week from local Citibank branches. The two-day run was triggered by unfounded reports that Citibank was insolvent. Last month Hong Kong's overdue seizure of the local subsidiary of B.C.C.I. froze $1.4 billion in accounts held by 40,000 hapless depositors. The colony's residents were still so shaken by the shutdown that on Friday they staged a second run, on the British-based Standard Chartered Bank after rumors that it had lost either its banking license or its stock- exchange listing...
...case, Awan stayed put in 1988 and was arrested by law-enforcement officers investigating the bank's U.S. money-laundering operations. The hapless Awan, who had been personal banker to Noriega and others, was convicted of money-laundering charges with four other B.C.C.I. officers in Tampa last year and sentenced to 12 years in prison...
...high government that the designated roughnecks like Adams and Sununu often end up as victims of the terrible swift sword that they loved to wield so much. Adams by all accounts enjoyed laying about in righteous fervor in the name of national interest. And Sununu relished summoning the hapless Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos to his office and giving him the heave-ho for the greater glory of Bush, who stayed away from the execution. Perhaps the power these men are given breeds in some ways the arrogance that leads them into trouble. There is only...