Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James's modesty aside, the Ithacans need more than luck to win those close ones. The Red team is strong and must be given the nod over Yale. The "nod," though, will be only slight, because the Bulldogs are making last season no more than a bad memory by staying undefeated, untied, and unscored upon in three games...
Credit on the Barrel. Wangling money, equipment and labor on credit, Richardson began wildcatting, brought in West Texas' famed Keystone field. "It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth. "I did it by jumping up in the air six feet and holding myself up by my own bootstraps...
...Byron both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary's father; William Godwin's outraged rebel's respectability never stopped him from sponging on Shelley...
...team scored once, and rightfully should have tallied at least two more goals, against one of the strongest defenses in the East. The line got clear for an unusual number of shots, and only Amherst's good fortune prevented its defeat. "All we need now is a change of luck," Munro said...
...best-two-out-of-three playoffs with the Braves this week, the Dodgers match their hard-pressed luck against a team that many baseball writers rated the world's best at season's start. Win or lose, the Dodgers were amazed to be there...