Word: overshot
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...chartered British Skyways York, just in from Moscow, overshot the London airport runway and nosed over. From the crushed cabin, Britain's Secretary for Overseas Trade J. Harold Wilson emerged and said casually: "Now I have got to see a doctor as my ribs hurt me." Next day he went to tell his chief, Sir Stafford Cripps, that Britain's trade mission to Moscow had also crashed. It was unlikely that the mission would return to Russia...
...first day out, rusty water ran from the taps, and showers overshot their marks in the newly refitted bathrooms. Dust blew out of air-conditioners and the movie projector blacked out several times. But luxury-starved Britons cared little for such minor hitches. At the end of two days under a perfect summer sky, a svelte passenger stood by the ship's side inhaling the soft night air. Suddenly she caught sight of a dockside below littered with trucks, bales and dingy trains. "Oh, my God," she exclaimed, "how ghastly to see the Southern Railway again...
...minds in University Hall who last spring estimated this fall's College population at 5,500 overshot their mark by less than a hundred, final registration figures revealed last night. Sargent Kennedy, Registrar, set the record-breaking total College enrollment at 5,435, including 3,872, or 71 per cent, veterans...
When the casual observer, having overshot Langdell Hall, lands in someone's back yard and mutters, "It's not much, but it's a roof over your head," the occupants smile and retort: "It doesn't look like much from here, but wait till you get inside." In one corner of a large living room, paneled in something resembling oak, is a sink, a stove and a refrigerator, amounting to what real-estate merchants call a "kitchenette." The bedrooms run off the main room, and the bathroom, which contains, among other things, a shower, is discreetly hidden. The whole place...
...Meegeren, a little-known Dutch artist. Although he worshiped Adolf Hitler, he felt no compunction about unloading a fake on fellow Nazi Hermann Göring. Göring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...