Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elis have a decent first line in Brian Bird, Greg Rivet, and Greg Luck, but little else. Yale goalie Bill Fitzsimmons was forced to contend with 55 shots in last December's 6-2 loss to the Crimson n Madison Square Garden, and Harvard wasn't even playing very well. Fitzsimmons is Yale's only hope of keeping the score respectable and avoiding a repetition of last year's 9-0 rout in Boston Garden...
That day in court one juror was selected, however. The policewoman who searched my body and my belongings for unidentified dangerous objects as I entered the courtroom commented later that I must have brought everyone luck. The tenth juror was a true case of American Blind Justice-a black woman who had a problem with her eyes which prevented her from reading the newspaper and thus insulated her from pre-trial publicity...
...Alan has been skiing very well, but he has just had incredibly bad luck," McCollom said...
Barnaby has taught his team the percentage shot, and against Penn it was the percentages that carried. Looking tired and falling behind in the fourth game, Gonzalez played conservatively and won several long points to beat Kapur at number four. Luck? "I could see he was more tired than I was. He kept stalling between points and I was beating myself by hitting the tin," Gonzalez said. "So I decided to just keep the ball in play and let him force a shot to end it, and I won," he said without the slightest hint of surprise...
...inns in the old part of the city. Pulling up to 50 huge wooden kegs behind them, they managed to slow traffic through Munich's narrow streets to a clippety-clop, but the townsfolk rarely seemed to mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep. The chesty Belgian-Rhenish geldings, however, have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study in Munich ranks second only to Tokyo's in pollutants. For their own sake...