Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown has had a little more luck in its non-league games, nipping a pathetic University of Rhode Island team, 21-14, and falling to Colgate, 10-6, in a spectacularly boring game...
...narrow milieu does not only limit, however; it also increases the probability of the chance encounters on which the narrative of Ma Nuit Chez Maud is based. Jean-Louis counts on chance. luck. And his luck is good because he scientifically applies his will to it, as when he picks up his wife-to-be with the full intention of marrying her. Comprehending his possibilities and limitations, he can neither renounce the world and become a saint, nor marry Maud. who is a free-thinker. Either way, to want everything or nothing, you've got to be crazy...
There is a strong element of luck in the turnaround. The strike that has shut down General Motors undoubtedly has helped Chrysler's fourth-quarter sales, and it will also prevent G.M.'s Vega from getting the long sales head start on the Colt and Cricket that once looked likely. The biggest reason for the improvement, however, is the aggressive direction that Chrysler is getting from the new management of President Riccardo, 46, and Group Vice President Eugene A. Cafiero, 44, who is in charge of auto operations. They took over in January, when former President Virgil Boyd...
...ballpark, then proceeded to peel off the polish as an antidote to nail biting. It is a ploy that Merle Hendricks, wife of Oriole Catcher Elrod, could have used: she gnawed her nails throughout the Series. Oriole Pitcher Dave McNally got one kiss goodbye and one kiss for good luck on the day he pitched. Should McNally have felt more amorous, it would have been to no avail-two is the limit. Strangest of all were the wives who deliberately didn't watch parts of the game. Twice the Orioles scored while one of the wives was away from...
...loading crates for $80 a week. The only girls they can pick up are either imbecilic or overeager-so much so that Joey gets one pregnant and marries her in a seizure of romantic guilt. The jobs evaporate; to survive, the trio becomes a menage a trois. The bad luck persists with the tenacity of winter. Tn lunatic desperation, the men commit a petty crime that escalates into violence. The only way out is the way west, and once again the Nova Scotia Home consumes the miles...