Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be distributed by the Council on Community Affairs, which Brewster also created Tuesday night. Tracy Barnes, director of the Yale-staffed Council, stressed that it will not dictate policy. "We feel very strongly that these people ought to be able to make their own success or, with had luck, suffer defeat. But we shouldn't be telling them what to do," Barnes said...
Like the author, Lyle DeFord is a wanderer come to rest on the West Coast. He is a carpenter, and a good one, a descendant of hardworking, hard-luck ancestors who moved to the U.S. in 1772. He is as old as this century; he rode the rods in the '20s, and after a life of honest work, he subsists on social security. He journeys East for an old relative's funeral, and in New York City he is knocked down by a heart attack. His hand-crafted wooden suitcase is still in hand, his treasured copy...
...BOSTON, CALIFORNIA--If Rick Reichardt continues developing into his $200,000 bonus, then the Angels will be a first division club. Boston needs luck--even more than last year...
...McClellan, a good organizer if nothing else, was given the task of putting the Union's forces back together. "Again," he wrote his wife, "I have been called upon to save the country." In September 1862, Lee invaded the North for the first time, and-with sensational luck-McClellan's men came upon a copy of his orders, detailing the exact positions of the divided rebel army. "Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee," said McClellan, "I will be willing to go home." Though he might have defeated Lee once...
...speedy, inescapable prosecution, a fair chance for a fresh start, and state-upheld values that offenders can reasonably acknowledge as superior to their own. For one thing, 77% of reported U.S. crimes are never solved; many are never even reported. Thus, most caught criminals see their problem as bad luck rather than bad character. Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent. Dostoevsky astutely depicts a would-be murderer viewing his act as "not a crime...