Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy. He was a pretty good man in the clutch too. Many was the time he would literally bend over backward or fall into the seats in right to catch aspiring homers. It's a great pennant race this year. I'd like to wish Hank Bauer luck, but since I'm still a Yankee fan, I can't and won't. He never relied on it before...
...Silverstein and his delicatessen have since passed into oblivion. But Charles Harting Percy did not. He applied himself, worked hard and persevered, and by dint of luck and pluck became a wealthy, successful businessman who is now the Republican candidate for Governor in his home state of Illinois, and-who knows?-may become something even bigger before he turns 50. To this day, Percy recalls his conversation with Mr. Silverstein. "I've never forgotten this," he says, "because he was right. It's fun working when you're working for yourself. Having your own equity, working your...
Then Novak's luck ran out. In a routine check with the Michigan Board of Registration in Medicine, the insurance company discovered that Novak was not licensed. Calling Novak's case "one of the most fantastic deceptions in Michigan history," the state attorney general hauled him into court. Last week Novak was formally indicted for practicing without a license-an offense that could bring him no more than six months' imprisonment and a $200 fine. Novak also faces another relatively mild rap. Because he had barbiturates and amphetamines in his office, he was violating Michigan...
...such luck. The ape woman dies in childbirth. The spiv, robbed by a cruel fate of his bearded breadwinner, faces destitution-or even employment. But at the last minute he is saved by a master stroke of showmanship: he discovers that the public, which paid good money to see the ape woman alive, will also pay good money to see her dead...
...time on a book that would explore both the day-to-day workings of the court and the long-term developments in legal thinking that have made it so important a shaping influence on the U.S. system, particularly in the last decade. The Gideon case was a stroke of luck that Lewis had the journalistic wit to seize on to animate what might otherwise have been a forbiddingly austere exercise in legal citations and abstract discussions. Gideon's dramatic struggle became the vital thread of narrative on which Lewis hangs his account of the inner workings of the court...