Word: mishap
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After Grant's mishap Harvard never got within two goals of the defending New England champions...
Ramer B. Holtan '66-3 of Adams House, a passenger on the vehicle, was injured in the same mishap, and is in good condition at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is expected to be released Tuesday...
...Baeza's second accident in a week: three days before, he had been lucky to escape with a bruised ankle when a horse jammed his leg against the starting gate. That first mishap kept him out of action for only half a day; after the second, doctors insisted that he stay in bed for 17 hours. Neither was likely to shake the almond-eyed Panamanian who is known in the trade as "El Chino" and "Stoneface," and who last year won more stake races (24) and more money ($2,582,702) than any other jockey...
...throng of late shoppers come two colossally inept hoods (Jean-Claude Brialy, Albert Remy), intent on hijacking 100 million francs from the cashier's office. Straight off, they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding up a tiny dry goods shop down the street...
...mishap hit the headlines back home, all Italy chuckled. Fanfani had hardly smoothed down his dignity and limped away when the next blow came. He found himself involved in a Hanoi "peace feeler" to the U.S. that turned out to be a dismal flop. Of course, he felt he was only doing his duty-that it was the responsibility of any statesman to pass along to the President of the U.S. the slightest intimation of an end to the bloody Viet Nam war. The folks back home, however, were less impressed than amused at this "amateur peacemaking." Particularly since Fanfani...