Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach has discouraged terrorists. Tel Aviv's uncompromising stance did not dissuade a Palestinian guerrilla team from seizing a Sabena jet with 90 passengers at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport last May and trying to bargain for the release of 117 imprisoned fedayeen. It was sheer luck that only one passenger was killed when Israeli security men stormed into the plane with guns blazing to end the extortion attempt. Three weeks later, a trio of machine-gun toting Japanese radicals working for the fedayeen killed 26 tourists and wounded 85 inside Lod International Airport...
...Good luck with your lacrosse team," cracked a long-time denizen of the Harvard Stadium press box as Brown's Director of Sports. Information, Mike Scandura gloomily trudged out the door. Scandura had a little difficulty trumpeting the achievements of last year's 0-9 Brown football team, and the Bruins did little to boost his spirits last Saturday, giving up six touchdowns while scoring only one in a controlled scrimmage against Harvard...
...argued that Ling was partly a victim of pure bad luck. While the economy was surging, LTV could paper over its weaknesses and use its rising stock to buy more companies. Then the Nixon Administration's anti-inflation "game plan" led to the recession and stock market collapse of 1969-70. That in turn shook out many of the glib-talking hustlers who had built too big on shaky foundations. Further, the Administration, responding to complaints from established businessmen that the conglomerate operators were dangerous predators, started a particularly vigorous antitrust drive. Jim Ling was its prime target. Justice...
Other wives are protesting the protesters, saying that they do not want the public to think all Navy wives distrust their husbands. But beyond that, something may possibly survive of the ancient superstition that women aboard ship bring evil luck. It may be that the origin of that superstition is just now coming to the surface...
...easier for the Republicans to restrain their aggressive tendencies this time round because they feel that McGovern has made haymakers unnecessary. They can scarcely believe their luck in having an opponent who laid out his whole program in vulnerable detail before the main campaign was under way. For months, Republican strategists have been picking it apart and storing up ammunition. Nixon has told his campaign planners: "Our peopie don't have to go around talking about our budget deficit. Talk about how much McGovern's programs would cost." He also intends to throw the blame for the deficits...