Word: mishap
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...spat of rifle fire. Shadowy figures ran crouching through the tall kaoliang grass and the southbound express whistled in the distance. The Japanese blamed the Chinese and said the blast had torn up 31 inches of track. Nevertheless, the train passed over the spot at full speed without mishap...
...broken needles, the doctors say that "as the quality of the needles improved, this mishap has become rare...
Despite his thoroughness, Schorr did not get through his farewell performance without a slip. The spear he carried fell apart in his hands several minutes before Melchior was to sever it with a blow of Siegfried's sword. But Friedrich Schorr overrode this mishap. Said he: "I am really very happy. I consider it a great blessing to be able to retire of my own accord...
After reading the final paragraph (in which Dorothy May cats sandwiches and learns "that doing the thoughtful or impulsive bit beyond what is expected is worth the trouble--and the occasional mishap--whatever it may cost"), I rang for Pierre, the steward, and told him to be thoughtful or impulsive and add a second jigger to my usual scotch and water...
...disease called keratoconjunctivitis, something like pinkeye, which pinked 2,000 San Francisco Bay welders last January (TIME, Jan. 26), was still active last week, had spread to Schenectady war workers and Manhattan civilians. It produces only a slight temporary defect of vision, but that is a mishap in war effort. Physicians are worried because a person may give it to someone else before he knows he has it. The examining fingers of one Manhattan eye doctor accidentally picked up the infection, gave it to 100 patients, the doctor's' family and himself (a virus, which is not killed...