Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desire the reddened fingers and tattered tongue that comes of shelling them oneself. "If you are ever forced into a sheller's market, however, I suggest you improvise an anvil out of the nearest table and a hammer out of an empty Coke bottle. With luck and experience, you will be able to shell as many as ten in a minute...
Smith had better luck with Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Edwin Willis, who, like McCulloch, is a member of the Judiciary Committee that approved the bill. Smith and Willis complimented each other on the discovery that they both thought the bill ought to go back to the Judiciary Committee for further consideration. "In the interests of the best legislation that could be devised," said Smith seriously, "I wish you would suggest it to your chairman." "Oh," replied Willis, cheerfully, "I would be delighted to do it. I'll carry the message to Garcia, but I'm not sure...
...Legislature rejected his tax program. The governor had proposed an income tax, lower corporation taxes, and the removal of the four per cent sales tax on food and drugs--virtually the same program his predecessor, John B. Swainson, had advanced a year before. If anything, Romney had worse luck than Swainson in the Legislature. At one point, Swainson had a majority of the state Senate supporting his bill, when suddenly six moderate Republicans decided at once that each of the other five was going to change his vote, and the bill was defeated. Romney never even got this kind...
...Grey Lady's sincerity and a sorority sister's charm. And she earned $150,000 a year as the Chrysler Girl on television. Then she suddenly announced she was giving it all up for grand opera. That's right, honey, her friends told her, lots of luck...
Mary Costa, 31, had little luck in her first attempts at the stage; she was hampered by a Grand Ole Opry accent learned in her native Knoxville. She quit college after her father's death and helped support her family by singing at women's clubs and speaking the part of Sleeping Beauty in Walt Disney's movie. But soon she was selling cars on TV, where her Greer Garson beauty and Grace Kelly style quickly made her one of the best in the business. She made her opera debut in Los Angeles in 1958 after Jack...