Recently and historically, they have been the N.F.L.'s most hapless franchise.
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Still, this is the most hapless way to frame things, and you can't convince me that the Jaguars are deserving of anything less.
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Social-media wags delighted in reviving the Trump-as-Corleone family meme and compared Donald, Jr., to Fredo, the most hapless of the Corleone progeny.
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Entering the 2020s, the most hapless team of the previous decade is once again looking for a GM and head coach and starting from scratch.
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On the other hand, if you fail to beat Trump, you will go down as America's most hapless political loser and be vilified forever for enabling an era of American Putinism.
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If the shot is going in less than a third of a time, even the worst coach drawing up the most hapless play is costing his team a mere fraction of a hypothetical victory.
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In the weeks and months ahead, we hope Pepe the Frog will come to illustrate a very different point: that every instance of hateful speech is an opportunity to learn, and that even the most hapless amphibian can become a force for good.
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And in 1994, when he unseated David Dinkins -- considered by many to be one of New York's most hapless and ineffective mayors -- he immediately launched a crusade to clean up the crime-ridden city, transforming it into one of the world's safest large metropolises.
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The prisoners at Fushun were senior Japanese, Manchukuo and Kuomintang officials and officers.Behr 1987 p. 293-294 Puyi was the weakest and most hapless of the prisoners, and was often bullied by the other prisoners, who liked to humiliate the emperor, and he might not have survived his imprisonment had the warden Jin Yuan not gone out of his way to protect him.Behr 1987 p.
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Prior to Snyder's first season in 1989, Sports Illustrated published an article about Kansas State football entitled "Futility U," which labeled the school "America's most hapless team." In hopes of distancing K-State from its losing history, Snyder had art professor Tom Brookhalter create a new logo for the team's helmets, a stylized wildcat's head known as the "Powercat." Snyder won only one game in his first season, beating the recently renamed North Texas, but it was a significant win because it was K-State's first win in three seasons. The game was especially thrilling, with a touchdown pass coming on the last play of the game.
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Ten hours and 23 minutes after the race began, the Duryea wagon drove across the finish line, finishing first. Meanwhile, according to news accounts, the Mueller moto-cycle "puffed its way slowly and laboriously along, its pneumatic tires wrapped with twine to keep them from slipping, and one of its operators sanding the belt on the motor for the same reason." It crossed the finish line an hour and a half after Duryea had—though Mueller himself, who had fainted from all the excitement, was no longer at the wheel. The Macy’s Benz was perhaps the most hapless racer of all: It collided with a streetcar on the way to Evanston and with a sleigh and then a hack on the way back, and never did finish.
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