Word: haplessness
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...unbeaten records snapped: tennis, in a 5-4 hearbreaker to Yale; baseball, in a tough 3-1 loss to Columbia; and golf, to Princeto in the Big Three match. To make matters worse, The Crimson had to eat its words when a Yale lacrosse team we had described as "hapless" upended Harvard's squad...
Harvard does battle against less awesome opposition on Saturday when the stickmen collide with hapless Yale...
...scene was sickeningly familiar: an ambush on a twisting mountain road, gunfire and death. This time, however, the victim was not a hapless villager caught in the middle of sectarian strife. He was Kamal Jumblatt, 59, leader of Lebanon's Muslim left and feudal landlord whose power base was rooted among the 150,000 members of the Druze sect. His assassination last week threatened to reopen the bloody civil war in Lebanon, which since November has been living under a "peace" enforced by three divisions of Syrian troops...
...Gentlemen," Casey Stengel once said to his hapless Mets during a particularly poor spring training performance, "this is a baseball...
...Plop, plop, fizz, fizz--Oh what a relief it is." Unfortunately the relief wasn't there, and neither was half the Harvard track team as the sick and injured Crimson succumbed to Princeton and beat only hapless Yale in Saturday's triangular meet at Princeton...