Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forty-minute mass, the crowd rose up and gave Bernstein a standing ovation. The maestro embraced Sayre and McCarthy, and bowed again and again to the applauding audience. Then, as the voice over the loud speaker thanked everyone for coming, announcing Woodstock-like that there had not been one mishap, people began to file quietly outside into the night...
...innocence. Oliver, another patient with rotten parents, had to get out of bed and dress according to a precise procedure. He believed that if he missed a step, God would punish his family. This ritual gave him a feeling of power, while allowing him to blame God for any mishap that might befall his parents...
Fikes had been one of the two or three runners in serious contention for the individual crown at the Heptagonals. He was said to be suffering from a bruised heel, the result of a steeple chase mishap...
FRANK CONVERSE does an uninspired job as Andrew Scott, Cole's side kick, whose death in a pulp mill accident sends Cole, who was responsible for the mishap, into a justified fit of depression. Converse is a hard working, solid type, intent on getting himself a better job and settling down into marriage. His attitudes are obviously meant to contrast with Cole's freewheeling irresponsibility, and they do, in a straight forward, obvious way. Linda Goranson works at a similar level as Ruth Lowe, the girl whose refusal to consummate her role as the female aristocrat opposite to Cole...
...forward tank of the Norwegian tanker Tamano ruptured on Saturday and 40,000 gallons of industrial fuel spilled into the Bay. The mishap occured when the tanker, attempting to reach an anchorage, struck Soldier's Ledge, which rises to within 40 feet of the surface...