Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contributor Giacomo Perico would have people develop a more acute sense of "highway sin." Perhaps the biggest highway sinner of all is the driver who takes chances and trusts to luck. If he has an accident, the church cannot absolve him until he has made good all damages, aided any victims and avoided perjury in court. If he gets himself killed, he has in a sense committed the sin of suicide. Father Perico would slow down drivers with a campaign of highway slogans. Samples: HURRY is ALMOST ALWAYS A SIGN OF PRIDE AND EGOISM, and HIGHWAY IMPATIENCE IS A SIGN...
Getting down to business, he pointed out that Rockefeller's father had given his children a bicycle to share, but that "one man (Nelson) wound up with all the wheels. It is this sort of luck and gimleteyed perspicacity that marks a man suited for the Presidency...
Early in life, Stu manifested the luck that was to stay with him over the years. He totally escaped the eye affliction, deterioration of the retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he fell two stories to the concrete foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity...
From there Symington branched into radio loudspeakers, then, in 1930, bought from Sears, Roebuck a controlling interest in Colonial Radio Corp., using $500,000 borrowed from his uncles. Weathering the Depression by a combination of luck, good management and driving energy, Symington finally sold his interest in 1935, netting a small fortune...
...third service team did not fare so well. Maintaining its streak of bad luck, Navy (2-3-1) was leading Notre Dame (2-3) until a fourth-quarter touchdown tied the score at 22-22. Then, with 32 seconds to go, Notre Dame's massive (6 ft., 225 lbs.) End Monty Stickles tried a field goal from the Navy 33, buried his head in a teammate's chest until he heard the roar of the hometown South Bend crowd that announced he had booted his team to a 25-22 victory in one of the year...