Word: hitching
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...Rome attack was planned to upset the Geneva conference, it backfired. The talks began without a hitch. The attack underscored an important fact about the Palestinian guerrilla movement today: it is badly divided...
...became queasy and coughed up a mouthful of vomit. As a safety measure Mission rules require that all such incidents be reported immediately to the ground. But the crew decided to keep quiet: "It's just between you, me and the couch," said Pogue. There was only one hitch: the astronauts forgot that all conversations in the command module were being taped and later piped to the ground. After discovering the coverup, Chief Astronaut Alan Shepard, who had modestly stretched NASA rules by smuggling some golf balls along on his Apollo 14 moon trip, took to the microphone...
...time Kissinger's entourage left Tunis for Cairo, apprehension was almost palpable if only because the airport serving the Egyptian capital was near the combat zone. But the midnight landing came off without a hitch, and Kissinger was engulfed in an excited crush of photographers. Security officers finally jammed him into a waiting limousine and whisked him to the palatial presidential suite at the Nile Hilton...
...committee has yet to formulate a job description for the position. Problems caused by the Harvard-Radcliffe athletics merger are creating the largest hitch in the resolution of the new coach's responsibilities...
...many other student gatherings (the Union at lunch, faculty sherries, etc.). The reason is that the bus, a goofy-looking vehicle, naturally attracts your sympathy if not your affection. Its novelty is an ice-breaker. The bus drivers may describe themselves as loners, but as any hitch-hiker who has been picked up by the king of the loners--the long-haul truck driver--can tell you, loners are often the most friendly people going. Jack, who knows me by my first name, is a jokester and friendly story-teller. Although I may look like a clown and invite razzing...