'hitches' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to catch, attach, or fasten onto something. For example: "We hitches the horse to the cart before setting off on our journey."
One of the first hitches in the Thanet campaign was the expenses scandal that forced Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson to resign as a parliamentary candidate in nearby Folkestone.
After centuries of stereotyping as backward and impoverished, it was an opportunity to show the world a different face and, barring a few minors hitches, went off better than many predicted.
Captain Willard Martin Sheenn) hitches a lift on a Navy patrol boat up the Mekong river to Cambodia on a mission to terminate "with extreme prejudice" a certain Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) who is reported to have gone native in rather a nasty way.
The article includes a great graphic of the landing sequence and some useful explainers about the two hitches in the mission when a nitrogen thruster, intended to fire on touchdown to prevent the lander from bouncing off the surface, failed to respond to signals from earth and when the lander initially ricocheted off the comet.
But his comeback was not without hitches: in an appearance on the front page of the New York Post on Wednesday under the headline "Shmuck", the tabloid said his outfit of a hat and ringlets similar to those worn by Hasidic Jews had "ignited a new round of outrage".
THE launch of America's first satellite-radio service was not without its hitches.
However technological and regulatory hitches are delaying the introduction of 3G, and it is far from clear that consumers want to watch video or trade stocks over the phone or, as important, how much they are prepared to pay to do so.
Even so, careful analysis of the delays after the TMI accident shows that technical hitches were largely to blame, rather than red tape.
The deadlock began to ease earlier this month, when the president publicly excoriated the state firm as "slow, half-baked and ineffective" and, shortly after, fired most of its bosses.Such is Cepu's potential that, if there are no further hitches, the project could boost Indonesia' s oil output by a fifth in two years.
The study, led by Purdue University, Indiana, and overseen by the EPA, is proceeding well, despite a few hitches.
The exchange was completed by January this year with virtually no hitches, a remarkable feat given the insurgency already in progress.The creation of a single currency has permitted the CBI to carry out a basic monetary policy.
