Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slowly his luck turned better. He rented five acres of desert land near Bakersfield, began raising hogs. Each night after work, he made the rounds of town restaurants, gathering swill to feed the pigs. With money earned from the hog sales, Roberts bought 15 acres for cotton, potatoes and alfalfa. After each day's work in the oilfields, he irrigated his crops; on hot summer nights he would lie down to sleep at the end of an irrigation furrow in his alfalfa field, and when the water got far enough down the furrow to lap at his body...
...want to indulge for just a moment this feeling of homesickness, the fun of going and seeing some of the people of SHAPE [who are] carrying the same mission, doing the same job that all of us started in 1951 ... To all of you, greetings, good wishes, good luck, and I hope that your homes are warm and nice, and the kids in good health and everything is going fine with all of you-from whatever nation...
...friends, and especially my colleagues on the News, I wish good luck and as much fun as I've always gotten out of life. I'm confident I'm off on the greatest adventure of my life; the biggest assignment any newspaperman could have. And now, my friends in the composing room, just finish off this last story slugged 'Limpus' with the usual...
...only a rare stroke of luck for the electronic eavesdroppers, but, in Indiana, where hard-bitten politicians jealously funnel most news tips to favored reporters, it was also one of the few occasions when dailies and wire services were able to report a big political story unequivocally and simultaneously. Not until the long wrangle was nearly over did the feuding politicos discover that their fight was on the air. One of the first to hear of the leak was a secretary at G.O.P. headquarters, who trustingly telephoned the press room and asked Indianapolis Newsman Ed Ziegner to relay the news...
...hooked by the diamond fever, and no amount of hard work helped because he never found enough diamonds. Helena spent long hours at housework when she should have been doing her schoolwork, and mamma tried all sorts of ways of making money (selling pastries, vegetables, etc.), always with disastrous luck...