Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellows played a great tournament and I know they won't let this blow by Lady Luck get them down," he said...
That goal now seems out of sight Indeed, the modular-housing industry is in a state of shock, a victim of bad luck and slipshod planning. Sales, it is true have been climbing-to 120,000 homes last year, from 81,000 in 1971- but they still constitute only about 5% of all housing starts. Profits on this low volume have been so thin that modular housing is now being abandoned by many of its would-be pioneers
...last third of the book is taken up with the journey of Reuben through The City, into which he plunges after a long struggle with manic depression and bad luck. The City is an inferno with eerie similarities to the surface world that Reuben has just left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid...
...contest is simultaneously a coach's pleasant dream and nightmare. The outcome may depend on coaching strategy, at which Gambril is a master, but it may also involve a great deal of luck, which being beyond anyone's control, gives coaches many a sleepless night...
...what the point of all this effort is. Real life is all around. We may expect more from television than "Leave It To Beaver" or "Days of Our Lives," but we also expect that if we won't be entertained, we will be enlightened. For all his skill, and luck, Gilbert shows us nothing new. We have all been here before...