Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CLAIM: mixed infections caused by two kinds of bacteria may need mixed antibiotics. ANSWER: such infections are rare, except in wounds, and can best be treated then by proper choice of drugs in the right amounts-not by trusting to luck that a manufacturer's choice of items and dosage will turn out to be right...
Pitchers have always been targets for trouble. But even for Herbert Jude Score, a young man whose luck has always been bad, this looked like the worst break yet. At three, a bakery truck crushed both legs; later he got pneumonia, then went to bed for eight months with rheumatic fever. In his early teens it was a broken ankle and acute appendicitis. A $60,000 Indian bonus baby at 19, he has not had a healthy summer since. But a dislocated collarbone, pneumonia again, a severe virus attack and a spastic colon could not keep him from running...
...shows you an unhappy land sometimes does have a little luck," a Communist politician has said about Wyszynski. Most of the cardinal's flock echoes the cry of a nun in the crowd that saw him off in Warsaw last week: "He is the savior of Poland...
...observers rate Social Credit as a threat to the long-entrenched Liberals who held 168 seats in the last House of Commons. But with energy money and luck they conceivably could elect more HP's this year than the Conservatives (50 seats), take over as the official opposition...
...seedy store, his endlessly nagging wife Ida, his difficult daughter Helen-a girl who wants "to be a virgin again and at the same time a mother"-and his wealthy neighbor Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with misfortune, as if there were just so much luck in the world and what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair of inept hoodlums, passing up Karp's well-heeled liquor...