Word: amissions
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...plane from Bratislava an American passenger, Katherine Kosmak, USIS librarian in Prague, noticed nothing amiss until the pilot began to circle for a landing. Then she heard a woman remark: "Oh, this isn't Prague." On the field below were U.S. military planes. In a hubbub of surprise and alarm, the liner rolled out, taxied up to the line. U.S. officers yanked open the hatch, yelled: "Get out, get out! No one is going to be hurt. You are in Munich. One of your pilots doesn't like Czechoslovakia...
...stepped confidently on to the airfield, beaming to right & left. The airfield commander finally whispered in the ear of Colonel McCormick's pilot, who explained that the flag had been painted on the B-17 in California, along with a Portuguese flag, and that nobody had noticed anything amiss. When told about the mistake, the Colonel ordered the Spanish Republican flag removed "and the right one painted on at once." To one of his aides he whispered hoarsely: "Be sure to get the name of that painter in California." A Spanish airport worker grabbed paint and brush...
When an athletic coach leaves a position at a college with the prestige of Harvard to go to a smaller and much less known college, at a 40 percent reduction in salary, something in the situation is seriously amiss. The reasons undoubtedly lie much deeper than one bad season in the win and loss column. And I for one feel that the time is long past when the administration and athletic director should make clear just what their plans and motives...
...Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing it is amiss, reform...
Last May the Belgian government submitted an account of its stewardship of Ruanda-Urundi to the U.N. Trusteeship Council. The council last week issued its "report on the report," finding much amiss about the way the Belgians directed the Batutsi 5% of the population to rule the Bahutu 94%.* The Russians, who check up on everybody, refused to sign the report. The Russians thought the council was not sufficiently critical of the Belgians...