Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Confident and secure, the Louds welcomed the cameras and sound recorders into their home and offered their private lives to a very public scrutiny. Seven months later, Bill and Pat had separated on their way to a divorce, and two of their children had left home. With uncanny luck, Gilbert had captured not only the dream, but its collapse...
Back in the U.S., Hammer went on to make more millions manufacturing beer barrels, distilling whisky and raising cattle. In 1956 he retired to California but got restless; the next year he bought control of Occidental, then a company with sales of only $274,000. Through a combination of luck, brass and shrewd management, he had built the company by 1970 into a behemoth earning $175 million on sales of more than $2 billion. Major factors in the rise: oil strikes in California and above all in Libya (one on land that Mobil Oil had abandoned because it produced nothing...
Anyways, best of luck to you. If either Nixon or Kissingerstarts making fun of your bow ties, you know where you can tell them to go. Geoffrey D. Garin...
...opposite him arose. "Good luck," he said. It was out of place...
...team can outplay an inferior opponent for three periods and still lose by three goals. That is one major reason it is almost impossible to go undefeated over a 25-game schedule, and that is why Harvard lost to the Big Red. It's just unfortunate that bad luck should intervene against nemesis Cornell...