Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council has just finished conducting an election. In the process of nominating, voting, and counting ballots a ludicrous number of irregularities occurred. None was unavoidable. The Class Committee election could have come off without a hitch if it had been properly managed...
...already prepared to celebrate his 58th birthday at the palace on Sunday. Possibly he counted on the fact that Remón, too, has been seriously ill with liver trouble in recent months. For a little while it seemed that his plan might go off without a hitch. Remón arrived at the palace, and was confronted with a demand for his resignation along with that of his two chief subordinates. The chubby, softspoken chief refused, was placed under arrest...
...month the shooting of the outdoor sequences clicked along without a hitch. When the moviemakers went back to London to finish some indoor shots, the squires of Much Wenlock finally holed up to have a look at Mrs. Webb's novel. What they read led them to draft a hasty letter to the potent British Field Sports Society...
...almost to the day -Dunc Taylor had taken the one-a-day train out of Oxford, Md., a quiet fishing hamlet on the Eastern Shore, and gone to work for TIME. Born in East Orange, N.J., educated at Brown University ('26), he had done a reporter's hitch on the Newark Star-Eagle and Brooklyn Daily Times, spent eight years editing a detective story magazine, and had retired to Oxford to free lance. "In 1939," he says, "the world seemed to be going to hell. I couldn't go on writing fiction...
There was only one hitch. Peter had been born blind in one eye. This handicap had kept him from going to a university after Eton. It had meant he had to have a special hunting gun designed for sighting with the left eye. And it had kept him from following his famed father's profession until the outbreak of World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last...