Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most mountaineers, Floyd has tried his luck up North; he worked in an Indiana foundry, tenant-farmed in Ohio. Each time, he came back as soon as he could save a few dollars. "You're all the time homesick when you ain't in this hollow," says Handshoe. "It bothered me fierce. In a city you got a certain job, and you go to the store and buy from one mess to the next. You can't get credit in a place like Ohio. Just about any store around here will give you credit...
...yearling, she grew so fast that she was inclined to be lazy; to keep painful calcium deposits from forming in her ankles, she had to be "fired"-a process in which a veterinarian cauterizes the ankles with a hot iron. She has also had her share of bad racing luck. Last month, in a warmup race for the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland, Moccasin broke so badly that she was ten lengths behind the field by the time she got untangled. She still won the 6½-furlong race by three lengths, repaying her shaken admirers at the rate...
...million TV witnesses. What was confirmed was that a highly publicized U.S. trial is more than likely to become a circus. And what is worse, that even an unpublicized U.S. trial metes out justice largely to the extent that the lawyers on both sides have equal skill-and equal luck...
...Colored No More." On his way up, Sammy brovight a built-in penchant for bad luck and controversy along with him. First there was the 1954 automobile accident in Las Vegas that cost him his left eye. Then, after a frantic new beginning, there were the years when he became one of the most notorious members of the Sinatra Rat Pack, his eyepatch fixed rakishly, like a pirate's, eager to outdrink, outgamble and outperform any other Clansman. Finally there were the unkindest cuts of all-from the Negro press, resentful of Davis' growing reputation for all-night...
...expected tension, and Director Norman Jewison exploits it fully. The grim-to-garish background seems authentic. The jargon sounds right. And McQueen v. Robinson put on a bristling good show whenever they interrupt their marathon long enough for a few words of subtly guarded small talk-about health, luck, woman trouble, anything that might make an opponent's mind wander...