Word: lucklessly
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...only bright spot for Coach Gordon Smith's luckless Tech squad was Jim Leonard, who captured the Engineer's lone first place, in the fifty yard dash...
...they were lucky in a way to have him. He gave them a focus for their resentment. The captain's chief competition came, for a while, from a young ensign fresh from midshipman's school. This boy, the "boot ensign" who took "indoctrination" seriously, was a luckless type in the Naval Reserve. Author Heggen writes of him sympathetically...
Finally, at 11:30, the big bell rang. After the delay, trading (in old futures at the new ceilings) was even more lively than usual. By week's end, all grain prices were up to their new ceilings at Chicago and the luckless "shorts" stood to lose their shirts. The Cargill suit was still pending. Robert Buckley (suspended from trading on a technicality) was still fighting mad and might go to court again. Nobody was selling confusion short...
...last week by having to stop every two minutes to be trans lated. His tall young interpreter, Vladimir Postoyev, became more & more agonized trying to translate Vishinsky's Soviet hairsplitting. When the agonized young man finally faltered, Vishinsky half whirled around, spat something at him, grimly watched the luckless linguist jump as though he had been shot...
...sort of thing, in greater or less degree, was happening all across the land. Every major U.S. city was jammed to its last trailer camp. More than a million families were doubling up; thousands of servicemen in search of a home were returning to the U.S. An army of luckless people, most of them with adequate funds, engaged in a desperate competition for shelter. In Atlanta, 2,000 of them answered an ad for a single apartment. In freezing Minneapolis, a man, his wife and baby spent seven nights in their automobile...