Word: mishap
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...fall on the ice last week, he feared he would miss publishing his weekly Oregon (Wis.) Observer (circ. 775) for the first time since he bought the paper in 1910. But in neighboring Madison, Publisher Don Anderson of the daily Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 75,653), read about the mishap to the Observer's one-man (and wife) staff. He rounded up three of his reporters, an advertising man and linotypist, drove ten miles to Oregon and put together an eight-page issue. Will Sumner Jr., editor of another weekly, the Evansville Review, was recruited to feed...
...strong. Now they make the lenses thinner. Another failure occurred with an enfeebled man of 75 whose wound did not heal. But Dr. Ridley reports that in 22 cases, the operation appears to be successful. One patient has worn his built-in lens for two years without mishap...
...Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot ran into his jeep and dropped its biggest prize on the general's neck. The mishap put him in the hospital for weeks and out of active fighting for good, but Templer soon talked his way into other jobs just as suited to his toughness...
...this writer's imagination, but the first movement seemed symptomatic of what was to come. Cooperation between Primrose and the entourage behind him seemed spotty, the transitions inept, and the pace sluggish. However, the movement concluded without any major mishap...
...operation was performed without mishap. But convalescence was stormy and the wound took ten weeks to heal, despite special care in closing it with buried stitches. With the aid of blood transfusions, the patient recovered, and her anemia passed. She has stayed well for six months...