Слово "vicissitude". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

'When is the last train?' I asked the ticket seller, who sat in the yellow light behind his window, his bald head glistening, like a small-town Buddha utterly secure and immune to all vicissitudes.

Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.

The Pyncheons, in brief, lived along, for the better part of two centuries, with perhaps less of outward vicissitude than has attended most other New England families, during the same period of time.

The dominance rapidly assumed by the Frankish Empire reestablished the unity of the west for a period; but this empire was irreparably shattered around the middle of the ninth century; the Treaty of Verdun3 traced divisions that were immutable in principle and, from then on, France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain set off on paths, often circuitous and through a thousand vicissitudes, to their full national existence, such as we see it blossoming today.