Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin is a Republican of partly Irish descent who believes in the luck of the shamrock, the shillelagh-and Baltimore's Southern Hotel. It was at the Southern that McKeldin listened to election returns in 1950 and heard himself elected Governor of Maryland for the first of two terms. And it was to the Southern that McKeldin, citing its good luck charms, returned last week to hear himself elected as Baltimore's second Republican mayor in 36 years (the other, in 1943: T. R. McKeldin). McKeldin, 62, defeated Incumbent Democratic Mayor Philip...
...David Rittenhouse) has considerably less luck. I have never seen this part well performed, and the obvious reason is Hal's damnably difficult problem of how to approach the moment where he chides "his truant youth with such a grace/As if he mastered there a double spirit/Of teaching and of learning instantly." Rittenhouse has the necessary grace both to enjoy the truant life and to reject it; what he lacks, I imagine, is simply the impression of immense energy ready to be turned to great deeds...
Five times a day for the past 30 years, thin, threadbare Sheik Shakhbut bin Sultan faced west, bowed low, and prayed for an oil strike. His realm of Abu Dhabi was desperately in need of some good luck. Up and down the Persian Gulf, the states of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran were rolling in oil wealth. But year after year, Abu Dhabi's 25,000 sq. mi. of sand, date palms and barren offshore islands just got hotter, more humid and windswept than before...
...gang steals a parked car, drives exactly eleven inches, feels a mighty thump, realizes red-faced that one rear wheel is gone-the car was standing on a jack. In the end, Capannelle & Co. cop the swag, a matter of 80 million lire ($130,000), but only by dumb luck. They stow it in a suitcase and the suitcase in a baggage room. The check-"Hey!" hollers Gassman. "What did I do with the baggage check?" He put it in his pants pocket, that's what, and he forgot to take it out when he gave the pants...
...unlisted to avoid the calls he used to get from irate parents whose children he had to eject for rowdiness. Night workers who sleep during the day often have their phones unlisted, and so do some old ladies who are painfully conscious of their vulnerability to a hard-luck story. Doctors and top executives sometimes keep one phone unlisted for outgoing calls only, and the parents of teen-agers often find it expedient to turn the listed phone over to the children and keep an unlisted one themselves...