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Word: luck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to talk seriously (if that is possible) about the Harvard soccer team which did the unexpected last week in Hanover: finding, through some stroke of luck or another, an offense at the expense of George Beim's on-again, mostly off-again Big Green. (All that stuff about sneakers and toilets was just to get you interested...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: CBS Reports | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

...took him three years). Before he wrote Lazy, he ran test ads for it: "I used to work hard . . . but I didn't start making big money until I did less-a lot less. For example, this ad took about two hours to write. With a little luck it should earn me fifty, maybe a hundred thousand dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rich and Lazy | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...LOTSA LUCK. NBC. Monday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T. Archie Bunker has spawned a whole blue-collar barrelful of hopeful imitators, but this one has scraped the bottom. In yet another American translation of an English television comedy, Dom DeLuise is a former bus driver who now mans his company's lost and found department. Whatever he gives at the office, he spends most of his time at home exchanging nastiness with his family of carping harpies. The biggest household joke seems to be the sexual inability of his sullen and slovenly brother-in-law Arthur, although last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

COLUMBIA-RUTGERS--Columbia played up to par against Yale. It lost. Rutgers is a very nasty outfit this fall. With a little luck, it could be embarrassing before it's over. Rutgers will prove the Lion win over Princeton was a fluke. Rutgers 31, Columbia...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 10/27/1973 | See Source »

...tiny holes in each pane to equalize pressure inside and out. A Maryland convict advised Hancock to put boxes under each window to catch the glass fragments. One superstitious woman even told the insurance company to "sell the building," since every broken mirror-window represented seven years of bad luck-20,000 years of it in total. Instead, each flawed window has been temporarily replaced with sheets of plywood, leading Bostonians to nickname the building "the Plywood Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Those Window Pains | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

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