Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn was sharp in the scoreless first quarter, out-hustling a Harvard team customed to the Quakers' narrow field. A rough offense and a solid defense the Crimson back-pedalling for most of the period. Several drives on the Crimson cage were deflected only by luck and the alert play of fullback Charlie David...
...student mob, estimated at 350, had barely completed serenading Barnard and Holmes Halls, and were trying their luck at Moors when the police intervened. When asked for a statement, one of the officers said "Well they're all right here so if they go back through the Square and make trouble we'll be in holy Hell. they're all right here...
Mama was the daughter of a Russian Jewish watchmaker. She grew up to be a beautiful but not great actress who had bad luck with men. Gary's father walked out on them right after his son was born. From the first, Mama knew her son would be the greatest. She took on a bewildering series of jobs so that he might be well dressed and well fed. She designed clothes, read palms, hawked jewelry, ran a tourist hotel. He would be a great violinist, a great actor, a great dancer...
...Good luck ; good fortune. Johnson...
happiness -penás, -pán- n -ES [happy + -ness) 1 archaic : good
fortune : good luck : PROSPERITY