Word: mishap
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...year-old could hold a plane on a fairly even course, nearly as easily as holding an automobile to a high way. But to land safely requires judgment and skill born of careful training and long practice. A miscalculation, a false move-and only fate decides whether the mishap shall be trivial or tragic...
...will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap near Madrid. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday...
...great ship was winding up the St. Lawrence valley toward Quebec when fabric covering her port stabilizer finally yielded to the whipping of the wind and tore loose-a mishap similar to that which befell the Graf Zeppelin on her first Atlantic flight. Without parachutes, members of the R-100's crew crawled precariously about the tattered fin, made makeshift repairs...
While scheduled U. S. civil aircraft flew 720,000 mi. last week without serious mishap, three flights on the stunters' fringe of commercial aviation ended disastrously...
Distinctly trying to new U. S. Minister and Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth last week was a mishap to Clifton, their chauffeur...