Word: mishap
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...answered, "Yes, I do - but with one caveat." Your generation has been through the anti-Japanese war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Gang of Four, and finally the Open Door policy. You know there are many pitfalls, that for China to go up the escalator without mishap, internally you need stability, externally you need peace. However, you are inculcating enormous pride and patriotism in your young in a restored China. So much so that when they started demonstrating against the Japanese, they became violent. Furthermore, when my son, the [Singapore] Prime Minister, went to Taipei last year...
...think I've found my limitations." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, after injuring two fingers in a mountain-biking mishap when he crashed into a police officer in Scotland
...production called The May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, or simply The Kiss. Irwin and Rice, looking overstuffed and upholstered, he sporting a grand mustache, fastened onto one another for long seconds as the reel flickered on. Their kiss suggested not so much the heat of passion as a mishap involving dry ice or Krazy Glue. Still, The Kiss passed for erotica. It created a sensation and called down the eloquent wrath of a Chicago publisher named Herbert S. Stone, who wrote, "The spectacle of their prolonged pasturing on each other's lips was hard to bear ... Such things call...
...sick man defecated behind the John Harvard Statue, sending officers to the Yard to investigate the bowel mishap. Police assisted in the cleanup...
...sick man defecated behind the John Harvard Statue, sending officers to the Yard to investigate the bowel mishap. Police assisted in the cleanup...