Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thought you might be interested in the following "Duffyism." The day your Duffy Daugherty issue hit the stands, he said that when he was asked if he wasn't afraid his picture on TIME would bring him bad luck, he replied: "It didn't seem to hurt Nasser much...
...branch of the National Student Association located in Cambridge has cabled "good luck" mesages to the students of Hungary and Poland in their agitation for improved educational conditions...
...offices wind up saying simply: "Try a hearing aid." After that, the patient is lost among at least 117 types of aids made by 40 companies all pushing their products with vigorous sales promotion. If the confused patient gets the right type of aid, it is often just plain luck...
Last week an energetic Colorado inventor named John Victoreen was trying to replace reliance on luck with a higher degree of certainty. No M.D., but a self-educated physicist who has made a fortune in X rays and nucleonics, Victoreen "retired" from business six years ago to work longer hours than ever in his own research laboratory in Colorado Springs. His interest in hearing aids began when a hard-of-hearing friend. Radiologist Kenneth Allen, asked Victoreen to make him a gadget that would enable him to hear without straining at medical conventions. Size and weight were no object. Said...
Depend upon it-depend upon René Clair-that young devil had the luck of the draw. She was a pretty little milliner (Michele Morgan) from Paris. Not even a husband to worry about, and only one lover (Jean Desailly). The lieutenant gave chase-and right there his luck gave out. He met her at a ball; she was distant. He asked if he might take her home; she refused. He followed her anyway; she shut the door in his face. He crept into her boudoir; her lover came calling before anything could happen. In the church, in the park...