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Word: luck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson baseball team, which has been squeaking by on one-run victories all season, ran out of luck yesterday. Leading Yale 4 to 3 going into the ninth inning, the varsity suddenly fell victim to a six-run Eli rally and went down to a 9-4 defeat...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Yale Scores Six Runs in Ninth To Upset Baseball Varsity, 9-4 | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

Larry and Margaret weave their deceitful way through the underbrush. A couple of the neighbors guess, but mostly the adulterers play in luck. Larry gives up a fine job to be near Margaret. But when it comes to planning the future, they would like a really full life; they want each other and their married mates as well. Author Evan Hunter suggests that life in suburbia is to blame, mutters vaguely that even success and a happy family are not enough for a man whose inner urges push beyond the humdrum life at the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

After last year's disappointments, it was a particularly satisfying year for Harvard crew. The lightweights rolled over all their opposition and were a unanimous choice to go to Henley. The heavies went into the Sprints undefeated and only finished third by a stroke of bad luck. All told Harvard crew this spring won 51 out of 55 races. The record speaks for itself...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: End of Another Year in Harvard Sports; Recapitulation, Hindsight and Preview | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

...will do you French all the harm I can." So said the pint-sized (5 ft. 2 in.), pale-faced Corsican named Buonaparte, who shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Hero | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...said, "I wish you better luck with it than...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: On Wheels | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

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