Word: mishap
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...snow, space, mountains, glaciers and continuous night. The first historic break in their winter isolation came last week when a U.S. Navy plane landed on skis in the dark of night at the U.S. Antarctic base on McMurdo Sound, and then returned to the sunny outside world without mishap...
...Lift was a triumph. Despite occasionally impenetrable ground fog in Germany and Hurricane Ginny's winds off the Southeastern U.S., the Air Force flew 236 missions, toted 459.6 tons of combat gear, logged 13,000 flying hours and burned up 6,500,000 gallons of fuel-all without mishap...
...front of the launching site were evacuated to hotels and fed at Government expense. For each of the Green River tests, nearly 1,000 people will have to be moved. Residents of the corridors over which the missiles fly are unaffected, since scientists insist that the odds against a mishap are astronomical once the big birds have achieved their ballistic trajectories. But merely evacuating residents from the launch areas and the spots where boosters are likely to fall can be a costly business; for the year alone, the House has approved payments of up to $1,720,000 to cover...
They are more than that; they are machos. Whether involved with a mistress, a mishap or an election, the Latin American male is constantly forced to prove his aggressive masculinity by a compelling phenomenon called machismo. In its simplest form, machismo is the gaudy bravado of the bullfighter, the outdoor he-manliness of the gaucho, the straightforward heterosexuality of the playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength...
...Bunting's proposal has destroyed the myth of the signout as a safety precaution. Indeed, statistical evidence destroyed it long before she did. Not once in the history of Radcliffe has signout information led to any kind of rescue. The Cambridge police have always found out about a Cliffie mishap before the College Administration...