'Yes, a slight accident,' she was saying.
"There's been a slight accident," she said.
From the stylebook: "Tempting though it may be for the confines of a headline, mishap means only a slight accident with negligible consequences".
The relationship comes to a spectacularly messy end the following morning after Spud has a "slight accident" and tries to smuggle the sheets out while Gail and her parents have breakfast.
But investigators said Mr. Li described accidentally bumping Annie's head against a small night table just before the 911 call, a seemingly slight accident that, according to the criminal complaint, "is inconsistent with the nature and severity of the complainant's injuries".
Not the slightest accident occurred to mar the scientific experiments which have been made on the rail-way.
Experts are divided about whether it will return in one giant and damaging blob, or in small gobbets over a long period.Even if the damage turns out to be slight, this accident could be a turning-point in Europe, rather as the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 proved to be in America.
He said last Sunday's snowstorm may have contributed to a slight increase in accidents, up from 367.
Of the increase in deaths (omitting Fallujah) reported by the study, roughly 60% is due directly to violence, while the rest is due to a slight increase in accidents, disease and infant mortality.
Not enough to warrant a military intervention, you might think, but even the slightest of traffic accidents now means the army is dispatched.
