Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That the number of colored champions is disproportionate to the number of Negroes in America is not evidence of physical superiority and mental inferiority, but of the fact that the choice of opportunity is limited for Negroes and that they must try their luck in the rewarding, but strenuous and heartbreaking, realm of professional sports...
With a potential first division team, the Crimson has had more than its share of bad luck this year. An injury to junior Chuck Lovell probably cost Harvard the Princeton match, and the Crimson is a better team than the lopsided Cornell and Penn scores indicate...
Until recently, the parents of one defective child had only two courses to follow if they wanted another baby. One was to trust to luck, worry throughout the pregnancy, and blame themselves if a defective child was born. The other was to have no child. Now, by using charts of probabilities worked out by Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts of London's famed Guy's Hospital, a geneticist can give parents an accurate appraisal of what their chances are of producing a second defective...
...escaping the comparatively rigid departmental requirements. Barkas enrolled his fall in a "junior conference" on U.S. relations with a divided Europe. The junior conferences--loose equivalents of the graduate policy conferences--split up into "commissions," which in turn split up into individual research projects. Mostly by luck, Barkas found himself studying trade with the Soviet Union...
With any sort of luck Opus wil not trudge into obscurity. Its faults are the faults that attend any lack of self-assurance, and if this issue gets the welcome it deserves, there is no reason to think such misdirection will persist. It remains for the established magazines to get jealous...