Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Comedy, however, does not accurately describe this play, for there is nothing really funny about it. As is the case with much American humor, the intended comedy depends solely upon exaggeration. In this particular mishap, a maudlin youth called Willy Baxter goes through the throes of his first love. While Baxter may be hailed as the first American teen-ager, his traumas are highly contrived and distorted. He behaves in a mawkish manner that is neither amusing nor credible...
...discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel, rubber and wire. The rest of Task Force Growdon clanked...
...similar mishap hit Mikkola's top sprinter, Dick Weiskopf, who pulled a leg muscle in the first heat of the 50-yard dash. To complete the "misfortunes-come-in-threes" pattern, half-miler Bill Montague twisted his ankle working out and was unable to compete...
With this mishap in mind the Radcliffe Student Council yesterday temporarily rechartered Idler until February 1, to give the club time to draw up a new document...