Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committed the outrage with all the innocence in the world. One day last December she inadvertently dismissed her fourth-grade class late, found that the school bus, which normally takes three of her boys home, had already left. She offered to drive the boys home herself. But as luck would have it, she found that her car had a flat tire. Just then, a Negro school bus drove into sight, and one of the boys, Pat Taylor, 9, sensibly pointed out that "it goes right by my house." Teacher Baskin assured the boy that she would drive him home once...
...soon picking up a babble of languages but no picture. Then he set up a great rhombic aerial, a "V" that spread over 80 ft. of ground. In came a ghostly television image from London, 5,200 miles away. When he tried for continental stations, he had even better luck with a standard German TV set and a simple suburban-type aerial. Across his 17-in. screen nickered the Pope celebrating Easter Mass at St. Peter's in Rome, tennis at Wimbledon, opera from Bremen...
...Luck in the Eocene. The gamble did not begin to pay off until 1953, when drillers hit a rich field 3,500 feet down in the Burgan sand at Wafra. Oil began flowing plentifully the next year, and production had doubled by 1956, when Getty made his second trip to the zone. He clambered over the rigs, walked tirelessly over the sands. A good practical geologist, he decided to drill in the neglected Eocene formation, down only 1,200 ft. Eocene oil can be pumped cheaper and faster than other oil ($30,000 and one week to drill a well...
...Well, best of luck, Chuck." (wet eyed and swallowing hard) "I'm sure sorry you and George won't be going with me into Cannon...
...luck that saved Bill from the steel mills still held when he got to Charles Town. He was hired by Norman ("Junie") Corbin. a shrewd trainer, a wise and patient teacher, and probably the ideal man to bring Bill along. Hawkfaced Junie Corbin needed an exercise boy to work horses, muck out the stables and clean tack, and Bill was glad...