Word: mishap
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...millionnairess who was crippled in a nasty skiing mishap, Valli suffers from an intense wheelchair neurosis. Cotten, who is not without his own social difficulties, is the man chosen to rehabilitate her. Together, these two unfortunates stage what is probably the most lethargic performance on record. A half-smile from Valli and one darted look from Cotten are the twin peaks of emotion in the film...
...engrams immediately after conception. He sees the period of gestation as one of dire discomforts and great perils. The most important of all engrams, which he dubs "basic-basic," is the first one received after conception-perhaps during the mother's examination by her doctor, or in some mishap before her pregnancy is known...
...Only one mishap marred the trip. When one of the canoes overturned, it was caught, battered by the current, and badly damaged. According to onlookers, "the stern just seemed to wave in the water." No one, however, was injured...
...fleet had squirmed with embarrassment while square-jawed Captain W. D. Brown stubbornly maintained that he was just about the last man in the world to blame for running the battleship Missouri aground in Chesapeake Bay. As a naval court of inquiry dug into the humiliating mishap of the Mighty Mo, Captain Brown insisted that "I was utterly alone as far as any assistance from my team was concerned" and caught up in an "unfortunate chain of circumstances...
...experienced Sunday stroller, the large cluster of people, police, and cars assembled last week at the juncture of Garden Street and Mass. Avenue would have meant a traffic mishap. Now to be witness to one traffic mishap is the due of every Sunday stroller, and as the size of this gathering promised something special, I hurried toward it expectantly...