Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clustered around a Red Cross worker in Colonel Platt's terminal. At Red Cross suggestion, A/1C Cole Y. Bell, trying to make it to an injured brother's bedside at Fort Campbell, Ky., tried to telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under him, and he's all right." Swallowing hard, Airman Bell found the home telephone number of Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns. When...
...often he will completely "miss" two other answers. In contrast to this, girls, who usually do all the reading uniformly well, answer all questions with relatively equal competence. In the long run, this tendency works out in favor of the girls. "Education based on knowledge rather than capricious luck based on ignorance always wins out in the end, 'Morris says...
...weak spot: the locked door, or a tiny opening for a wire, or a vulnerable glass plate. After patient hours of practice, the thief collects his tools and goes to work, preferably in a big club where from 40 to 400 slot-machine players are trying their luck at the same time...
...Lama's advisers placed two balls of kneaded tsamba in a golden bowl of water, one to indicate that the Dalai Lama should leave Lhasa, the other that he should not. When the answer turned out to be yes, they set out cups of buttered tea for good luck, made their way over the mountain passes in freezing (24° below zero) weather to a monastery only ten miles from the Indian border. When they returned to Lhasa seven months later, the Dalai Lama was no longer the power he had been. The Communists gave him ten yellow limousines...
...Wally Cook, who had come in to pitch extremely well for Harvard in the sixth, was the victim of bad luck when the marines got two unearned runs in the bottom of the ninth. The lights came on, and the game progressed until finally in the thirteenth Davis doubled, sending in A1 Martin with the winning...