Word: mishap
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...study the evolution of the solar system, captured solar particles 1.5 million kilometers from Earth on its 37-month journey. With its cargo considered too delicate for a hard landing, helicopters manned by stunt pilots were deployed to snare the craft as it drifted down?but the parachute mishap meant the saucer-shaped ship plummeted to Earth at almost 320 km/h. NASA researchers hope to recover much of the payload, about the weight of a few grains of salt, from the wreckage...
...discovered the problem not in his official role on the council, but when trying to deposit a bad check from the council as part of a grant to Demon magazine—said he was disappointed in Mahan’s failure to inform students of the financial mishap...
...memories of the housing process are less than idyllic. In the days before randomization, he recalls, his blocking group was placed in the “abandoned, musty, dusty” North House—later renamed and renovated into Pforzheimer House—by a chance mishap...
...those seeking to avoid such a fashion mishap may want to follow the advice of graduate Adina Gerver ’02-’03, whose Commencement experienced heavy rains. An e-mail authored by Gerver last year was forwarded to the Pforzheimer open list this weekend...
...thought we were heading to another nuclear holocaust,” Blumenfeld says. “There were so many warheads, mathematically it looked like sooner or later some mishap would happen and we were all going to do ourselves...