Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unexpected presence of the jets overhead, only a few residents hurried toward the black, tubular individual bomb shelters that line the city's downtown streets. After all, never in the history of the Indochina war had densely populated downtown Hanoi been bombed. Last week Hanoi's luck ran out. By the time the air-raid sirens began to wail their warnings, the French diplomatic mission had been bombed into ruins, five employees were dead, and the chief French diplomat in North Viet Nam, Pierre Susini, was critically injured...
Since the teams all appear to be even, there will be no "big games" until the season develops further. Injuries, field position, and luck, therefore, shall be important factors the entire year...
...series of revelations has been remarkable. It began surfacing in the public consciousness with the contributions of dairy farmers to Nixon's campaign fund and their good luck with price rulings in the Department of Agriculture. Then came, among other items, the ITT affair and the Watergate bugging. Nothing here but us chickens, the White House insists, all locked up behind the high fences of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, running from case to case with explanations of coincidence and business as usual. Sarah McClendon, the redoubtable journalist with the foghorn voice, lobbed one into Nixon's cool and respectable...
...Good luck is the real world. Bruce Davidson
Bernard Shaw wrote letters as an art form of onslaught, judging his success by the cries of the wounded. Reading a Shaw letter is a piece of luck, like hearing a superb harangue over a transom. One is infinitely grateful to pass within eavesdropping range. One is equally grateful not to be in that room, backed by scolding tongue and wagging finger into a far corner...