Word: haplessness
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...defense was the perfect weapon against the hapless Engineers, who anchor their offense around their 6-ft. center, Diane Ozelius. With Harvard clogging the middle, Ozelius could not work down low, and was forced to shoot from outside her range...
...commission headed by former Supreme Court Justice J.C. Shah. For the past four months the commission has heard testimony implicating Mrs. Gandhi and her high-rolling son Sanjay in crimes ranging from improper seizure of dictatorial powers and persecution of their opponents to the uprooting of 700,000 hapless citizens of New Delhi in a beautification campaign. Tearful witnesses testified that police entered their houses and beat up women and children in their zeal to vacate and bulldoze 105,000 homes...
...obesity, overacting and the ability to strangle on cue, wields his demeanor like a sledgehammer and leaves viewers so unsettled that it takes them a while to remember what the rest of the movie is about. Once he appears on the screen with his insipid lackeys and his hapless barber-valet, it is hard for the nicer elements of the plot to reassert themselves...
...difference-Rolling Stone was now flaunting its hip capitalist style with relish. Yet this exercise in electronic self-promotion by a member of the print media might have been excuseable if the two-hour birthday show had at least amounted to a competent rock history documentary. Instead, the hapless viewer witnessed grating excesses of Felliniesque imagery accompanied by watered-down renditions of Beatle standards. The program featured such rock minor leagues as Ted Neeley (that's right, the Ted Neeley), Patti Labelle and Jeff Holland-and to top it all off, Steve Martin wasn't even funny...
...Harvard women's swim team racked up 99 points against a hapless Tufts team Saturday morning, beating the Jumbos three times over with three points to spare. Tufts scored...