Word: mishap
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Originally scheduled to appear at 8:30 p.m. this Saturday night, the program entitled "The Benefactors" depicts a successful abortionist who has treated over 1500 women without a single mishap...
...Tidal Wave lost the necessary ingredient of surprise ; the Germans had cracked the Allied code and tracked the planes all the way to the target. Over the Mediterranean, the lead Liberator carrying the mission navigator suddenly staggered out of formation and crashed into the ocean. It was a disastrous mishap: hours later the lead wave took a wrong heading just short of the target, and Operation Tidal Wave began to disintegrate into chaos...
...destruct" button that sends a special radio signal racing after an errant missile and commands it to blow itself to bits. Yet suddenly the destruct system is activated, and the missile, possibly with a man atop it, explodes in a blossom of flame. The odds against such a mishap are small, but there is always a chance that an unintended signal perhaps from a badly adjusted ham radio, may destruct a missile that is flying properly or still on its launching...
...would soon be divorced, he insisted that it was purely his own, private business, and nobody else's. The divorce, he said, was not in the "public domain." As for his political prospects, either for re-election this November or as the 1964 G.O.P. presidential nominee, his marital mishap, he said confidently, would not affect them by "the slightest iota." By last week, with Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller halfway through the six weeks' legal residence in Nevada which are necessary for a Reno divorce, Rocky had changed his mind about what the voting public might think...
...Taylor got his sixteenth goal of the season on a pass fror Kinasewich in the final period before Brown had spoiled goalie Godfrey Wood's shutout with a breakaway. Taylor played with seven stitches over his left eye after a first period mishap...