Word: mishap
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RECOVERING. JANET RENO, 63, sanguine former Attorney General now running for Florida Governor; after fainting during a speech in Rochester, N.Y. On her release from a local hospital, where she got a clean bill of health, Reno joked in reference to the recent Bush mishap, "I don't have a bump on my cheek...
...least one constituency: late-night talk-show hosts. Here, at last, was a terrorism-free gaffe they could make fun of--which they did, endlessly. The Tonight Show's Jay Leno, who joked about Bush's deciding "which game he's going to pass out watching," tells TIME the mishap was "a gem" because it didn't require "mocking his ability to govern...but was just a light human foible." Indeed, Bush got relatively gentle treatment: most of the jokes were at the expense of others, like Dick Cheney, or the pretzel itself. "The reality is, going hard at Bush...
Although the Crimson had actually not been called for a false start, the mishap resulted in them finishing eighth in the race and dropping two points behind Charleston. In the eighth race, though, Harvard placed fourth, four slots ahead of Charleston, reclaiming a two-place advantage...
...known idea generated by the Ivy Council was the failed Census 2000 of Fentrice D. Driskell ’01 and John A. Burton ’01, an endeavor known more for the information it didn’t collect than for what it did. With this latest mishap, the Ivy Council has proven to be not only incapable of living up to its goal of fostering productive dialogue between Ivy League schools but also has shown itself to be a major financial drain as well...
Take Valeria. She's as fluffy and self-absorbed as her tiny dog Richie. She cannot endure the pain, loneliness and loss that follow the accident. He becomes similarly needy as a result of a mishap that is, at first, more comic than desperate. Their story ends with her staring silently out the window at the blank wall that once held her picture, 10 stories tall, while he snoozes...