Word: mishap
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...Yale game in 1941) hoisted himself over the railing and out onto the narrow ledge to retrieve a wandering page of copy. It looked for a minute as if Vern planned a quick trip to the playing field, but he cased his form back over the groaning rail without mishap...
...U.S.S.R. made major note of a minor mishap to the late Maxim Gorky. The weekly Literary Gazette recalled that in 1906 Traveler Gorky was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel when the Imperial Russian Embassy announced that his woman companion was not his wife. Furthermore, the Gazette snarled, his watch was stolen...
...lacks the horrible brassiness of modern musicals. It is inexpressibly delightful to sit in a theater without the constant danger of having a big-name band jump up and down noisily. Here the commercial Jazz is present but not overpowering, and the picture wends its pleasant way without mishap. A perhaps interesting note: Betty Grable is in the billing, but it was impossible to find her in the movie. Perhaps she dyed her hair, or perhaps she was a maid, but don't look too hard and you'll be safe...
Sorter, however, found more serious opposition than siwash spirit when he collided with a construction machine and overturned his vehicle. The mishap resulted in lacerations of the left wrist for him and a broken nose for his date...
...they view these injuries as misfortunes rather than alibis. In their abbreviated condition they went out to win two recent ball games against more fortunately situated opponents. In one case they succeeded with a 7 to 0 upset; in the other, they missed by a single point. Such a mishap hardly warrants the flare-up of defeatism that has followed the loss to Dartmouth...