Word: haplessness
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...suicidal. Powered by supercharged 2,000-h.p. engines, the big, unlimited-class hydroplanes just about fly-touching the water only with the propeller and two sponsons each the size of a water ski. A patch of rough water can send a boat somersaulting to destruction, and woe to the hapless driver who gets caught behind a rival's arcing 30-ft.-high rooster-tail wake. Last week, as 200,000 boat-racing buffs lined the shores of Seattle's Lake Washington, twelve of the big hydros took off after one another in the 54th annual Gold Cup regatta...
...lead when Ralston's service fell apart. For the first time in Davis Cup memory, a game was lost at love on four successive double faults. Quick to seize the advantage, Osuna and Palafox fought back to salvage the set, 8-6. In the second set, the hapless Ralston served eight more double faults-overshooting the service line. All told, he served a grand total of 18 double faults, surely a record in Davis Cup competition. Though McKinley-and Ralston, too-fought gamely to the end, managed to stretch the match to five sets, their confidence was gone. Mexico...
Caught in a different dilemma is the hero of the second play, Boubouroche. "Dilemma" equals "horns" equals that traditional French anathema, cuckoldry. Which is precisely where the hapless Boubouroche finds himself. What is worse, he learns that he has been sporting his shameful appendage for eight whole years, since the very beginning of his liaison with his first and only mistress, Adele. Yet even when he catches her lover in the closet, he is powerless to unwind himself from around her little finger. For, as one of the actors puts it in a formally informal prologue to the double-bill...
Cobb invited them into his station wagon for a chat and, after they confronted him with curious similarities in the two lives, finally said with the hapless resignation of a man awakened from a beautiful dream: "Let's stop kidding around, fellows. You know the truth." Soon he issued a public statement: "I hold a deep affection for my legal wife and adopted son. I hold a deep affection for the mother of my two young natural sons. I intend to resign." He quit both the senatorial race and the state chairmanship...
...story revolves around a hapless family that has recently come to New York. The father (Camilo Delgado) is a guitarist who refuses to wash dishes for a living for fear of ruining his musician's fingers. The mother (Rosita de Triana) simmers in sad-eyed frustration. The son (Robert Gentile) tries to do an honest job as a grocery boy, but street gang punks torment and entangle him. The daughter (Greta Margos), a lissome, raven-haired beauty, gets work in a garment-factory loft, but the piggish foreman makes her earn her overtime pay with bodily favors. Her "promotion...