Word: mishap
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Fortunately, House football players have gone most of the season this year without serious injury. But because of the nature of the sport and because House athletes speed little time in training, there is always the danger of major accidents. Although admitting that chance for mishap is high, the athletic department still bolds that insurance for intramural football players is necessary...
...Joseph E. Serhant flew East Friday to be with their son. Mr. Serhant said that he was convinced that the mishap was an accident, due perhaps to a leaky carburetor, and that his son hit his head getting...
...Princess looked so sad and wan in her latest pictures from Africa. From Rhodesia came another explanation: the bite of Rhodesia's cold wave. Queen Mother Elizabeth and Margaret stepped off their Comet in light summer dresses, have been shivering and forcing smiles ever since. Added mishap: the Queen Mother's hatbox got away from the 49 other pieces of royal luggage, wound up 600 miles away in Johannesburg...
...Harvard--a third of a length ahead with ten strokes to go-- crossed the finish line, the charter boat swung between the two shells. Just missing the Orange and Black starboard oars, it forced the Princeton shell to veer to the shore. The Crimson, clearly a winner before the mishap, was at first awarded the race, but reversing the decision, the judges declared the race no contest. The Crimson was clocked in 9:23 to Princeton...
...gave her the opportunity to display her considerable technical powers. Despite the composer's maddening instructions ("As fast as possible," he demands at one point in the Rondo, and, a few measures afterwards, "still faster"), the sudden fortissimo outbursts, fast octave scales, and other bravura passages rattled along without mishap. And while Beethoven's Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance Tune may lack profundity and grandeur, they are good, clean fun and Miss Drooker made the most of them. Her elastic, but consistent phrasing gave logic to the variations, without binding them in a formalistic straightjacket...