Word: mishap
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...only ungentleman man I have meet in Turkey sorry it happen as I had been thinking all day if I had to give a prize to the most respectfully men it would go to the Turks, the other men felt so sad.") She turned her most dangerous mishap (a train wreck in Czechoslovakia in which 26 people were killed) into profit, when she asked damages for a black eye, got the $200 she asked...
...times that of gravity. In short spurts the centrifuge can rotate up to 160,000 r.p.m., exaggerating gravity 1,100,000 times. If this speed were maintained more than a few seconds the rotor would fly into smithereens. To prevent injury or death in case of such a mishap the 20-lb. rotor is girt by an 800-lb. steel shell, 5 in. thick...
Worst air accident in Mexican history, the crack-up was the first mishap of any kind in the twelve-year career of Compania Mexicana de Aviaci...
...Woburn's Charles Choate Memorial Hospital day after the Lowell mishap, Dr. Thomas Francis Halpin, 31, with three nurses assisting, was in process of delivering a baby by means of forceps. He became aware of a severe headache, a sharp pain in his chest. He turned to one nurse, saw her drop unconscious to the floor. Just then a second nurse also dropped unconscious. The third nurse reeled to the double doors of the tightly closed obstetrical room, pushed them open, released a flood of carbon monoxide gas developed by a defective, gas-heated sterilizer. Refreshed, Dr. Halpin completed...
...marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge Evans) thinks he is in love with a U. S. millionaire's daughter (Helen Vinson) and deserts him, a mishap for which the engineer blames his best friend (Leslie Banks...