Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horse-Collar Rescue. Whatever the cause of the mishap, the next few moments were hectic. One helicopter tried to snap up the Liberty Bell 7. The second could not come too close to pick up Grissom because of the rotor blast of the first. So Grissom swam 25 yards to a calmer spot, where the second helicopter lowered a "horse collar" and lifted him out of the water. Hurried back to the Randolph, he made his first remark seconds after stepping aboard: "Give me something to blow my nose. My head is full of sea water...
...ascent into orbit and orbiting itself. I readied myself for it. I faced transition from a condition of weightlessness to new and perhaps even greater overloads. I also faced tremendous heating of the ship's outer surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap of Cosmic Ship III, which on Dec. 1, 1960, burned up with its cargo of two dogs. The fate of Pchelka and Mushka had a bitterish taste. Would all systems work normally? Did some unforeseen peril await...
...freshman captain settled down a team that has been guilty of extremely sloppy ball-handling all year. He kept the offensive pace moving so that Kelley, Gary Borchard, and Denny Lynch could get free for their shots, and threaded the ball through the Tufts press with hardly a mishap in the final ten minutes...
Spaceman Wernher von Braun called the misfire "a little mishap" bravely predicted that the U.S. would still manage to orbit a manned capsule by the end of 1961. But Project Mercury's latest failure, third in a row, just about evaporated the last faint wisp of hope that the U.S. might put a man into space before Russia does...
...driver of the cycle, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital at 2:45 p.m. with multiple contusions and released a few hours later. His roommate, Ronal Bonebrake '63, an end on the varsity football team, was the passenger with him and suffered mainly slight cuts in the mishap...