But even before opening, Freedomland found misfortune when a fire destroyed several buildings.
Bass doesn't hesitate to market misfortune: When a 2004 fire destroyed a barn and 13,200 hens, 20% of his flock, it made for a tear-jerking tale in Bass' newsletter.
He came back to score a second place behind Lucchinelli in Belgium, but was once again struck by misfortune when a bad case of food poisoning forced him to miss the San Marino Grand Prix.
It's a common misfortune when a kid loses their shoe for a second, and it disappears into the Halloween night.
His notion of a fair innings is predicated on the view that "while it is always a misfortune to die when one wants to go on living, it is not a tragedy to die in old age; but it is on the other hand both a tragedy and a misfortune to be cut off prematurely" [ 60].
PFIZER'S marketers were turning an antibiotic called Trovan into a blockbuster when misfortune struck last year.
When economic misfortune strikes, foreigners are a convenient scapegoat.
$25 Somewhere in his published diaries the playwright Alan Bennett observes that when misfortune befalls a writer the effect of it is in a small but significant measure ameliorated by the fact that the experience, no matter how dire, can be turned into material, into something to write about.
Shell has experienced a series of misfortunes since July, when a drill ship dragged anchor and went adrift, nearly striking the Alaskan shore.
His gift for appropriate oratory showed through: "One of the supreme qualities of the House of Commons is that when misfortune strikes a colleague, the house, individually and collectively, reacts as a family, and its kindness, its understanding and its readiness to share in sorrows is something which is deeply comforting, and for which I myself have cause to be moved and grateful.
