Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four days before the bouts, Moscow suddenly wired that its boxers "could not appear, in view of unforeseen circumstances." Then the Red embassy in Rome announced that it knew of no change in plans. Next, on the day before the championships, the Polish team informed officials that the Russians were on the way at last by air from Minsk. But when weighing-in time came, there were no Russians in sight. They were scratched from the lists, and the bouts went on without them (and without the satellite Rumanians, who claimed last-minute visa trouble...
Besides the radiological reconnaissance teams, says Colonel Wilkinson, each target city should have at least 100 trained men with instruments to detect "personal contamination" (radioactive clothing or skin). There should also be a central laboratory with highly trained personnel for checking instruments and dealing with unforeseen problems...
Since then, Violinist Szigeti, world-traveled and world-famed, has endured many another ordeal by fire-including such unforeseen ones as his recent detention on Ellis Island on re-entering the country he has made his home for nearly a decade (TIME, Nov. 27). A greying, philosophic man of 58, he has survived them all. In Carnegie Hall last week, he played a unique concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his harrowing U.S. debut...
Gullion explained that the losing season was "partly attributed to unforeseen shortages of manpower (injuries and players giving up the game), not to the athletic policy...
...bridge was scheduled for completion sometime in November, but L. S. Langstroth, president of Langstroth-Monroe Inc., which is building the bridge, claims that no unforeseen problems came up. The delay was due to shortages of material, he said...