Word: haplessness
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...another vanishing animal that Hickel has moved to protect-Alaska's musk ox (Ovibos moschatus). When Hickel was Governor of the state, the legislature passed a law to permit hunting of the helpless musk ox. Hickel vetoed it. Recently, the Alaska legislature passed a new bill allowing the hapless ox to be hunted. As Interior Secretary, with power over federal acreage, Hickel immediately placed Nunivak Island, the federally owned haven for musk oxen, off-limits to all hunters...
...Rosenkavalier was presented realistically, with sets, costumes and actions designed so that the audience could "feel a good aromatic inhalation of Vienna" at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. Merrill's Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, was mounted as a fantasy; it captured the magic of the evil nurse, the semi-spirit world...
...Brown's hapless wrestling team should prove no obstacle to Harvard in its quest for a second-place Ivy finish tonight at Brown...
...curved sticks, more than a few players swear at them. The "little action" Hull refers to is a certain spin given to the puck that makes it dip-sydoodle through the air like a knuckleball, fluttering and dropping as much as 18 in.-at 100-plus m.p.h. For the hapless goalie, says Toronto Maple Leaf Coach Punch Imlach, fielding these unguided missiles is "like standing up at the plate while a baseball pitcher without control throws dust-off pitches at your head...
...Yardling skaters romped to their sixteenth victory of the year against two defeats, by overpowering the hapless Merrimack team at Watson Rink...