Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luck all through his life had been phenomenal, Kissinger admitted. "My career was an accident. You cannot aim for it. It cannot be duplicated by design. Most people who come to power in Washington have aggressively sought it. I thought that I would be a staff aide to the President and nothing more...
...Troubadour, a dank Santa Monica Boulevard bar that offered newcomers three-song auditions on Monday nights. Fast talkers who knew they needed only ballpoint pens and promising new groups to become record company executives jostled in the Troub's murk with finger snappers who knew they needed only luck and chord books to become rock musicians. The Poneys wangled a gig at the Troubadour. They had hit the small time, but they were rock musicians...
...rate, we're all in luck for the moment. We're nearing the end of the winter sports seasons and some great "inside" incidents, controversies and revealing confrontations are coming out into the open. I'll be a nice guy and let you in on these choice tidbits of scandal first...
...Year's meal at home, but because some ancestral ghosts are evil and lazy they might be tempted to stop at someone else's home for dinner instead of going to their own. Once there, they might stay the rest of the year as well, bringing very bad luck. To avoid this, the Chinese believed it necessary either to abstain from cooking in order not to attract them into their homes with the smells of a good meal, a strategy obviously not in the interests of the living, or else to scare them away with firecrackers and dragons...
...Scheerr Luck...