Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...
...Blend Luck. In Memphis, a uniformed Salvation Army worker had stepped i to a drugstore, ordered a cup of coffee-to-go, and was standing in line waiting to pay for it when a nearsighted customer dropped a quarter into the brew...
Symbol on a Hill. Castro has confidence, physical courage, shrewdness, generosity and luck-qualities that will one day plant his statue in some Havana plaza. He won his long war not by fighting but by perching in sublime self-confidence on the highest mountain range in Cuba for more than two years, proving that Batista could be flouted. He became the symbol of his rebellious country, pulled quarreling rebel factions together and inspired them to face down a modern army...
...Kitzbühel last week, the two girls temporarily ran out of luck to go with their new fame. Betsy fell the first day and was out of the running. Penny finished second in the downhill, but ran into trouble near meet's end when she turned too sharply into a slalom gate, tumbled in the sticky snow. But neither of the country girls was discouraged. "Oh. well." sighed Penny, "that's the way the ball bounces...
...with the ground stations. There will be no window for him to look out, but an "optical display" (undetermined) will give him a kind of indirect visibility. If anything goes wrong early in the ascent, he can fire an escape rocket that will bring him back to earth, with luck, before he has climbed too high...