Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of the lion dance is to impart good luck to local merchants. During the course of the six-hour dance, the lion and its considerable entourage of flag-bearers, cymbal-clangers and general curiousity-seekers visit every business establishment in the neighborhood...
...that time, and in 1972 had performed the astonishing feat of pitching 40 straight innings without giving up a run (when he finally did, it was unearned)--he finished the year with an ERA of .027. This year it had hovered around .100. If Harvard was to have any luck at Omaha, the first game was key. Trouble was, Harvard drew USC for the opener, the defending national championship team. Baseball is serious there. In late October, when the real World Series is over and the major league players have all gone home to hunt and fish and sell insurance...
Success conferred itself upon these people without any of the usual confusion or red tape. Some unexplained combination of luck and talent, ambition and self-promotion and hard work, opened doors for them that their classmates will be throwing themselves against until well-nigh on middle...
...bring fortune and success. "You work so hard," a small-time, has-been boxer says to his girlfriend in the film Rocky. "It don't matter. I was nobody before." Diligence is no longer enough to get ahead on the city streets; now a man's got to have luck if he's not to be forgotten. Rocky slips quietly into the mildly criminal life of the city. "Well, it's a living," he says. But underneath he knows it's a waste of life. Meanwhile, the dream has died...
...interview. They accused her of being a spy for women's lib. They said she just wanted to juice up her master's thesis. But this woman was on welfare. She needed a job." Others are having better luck. In Seattle, an organization called Mechanica, which helps women find blue-collar jobs, has placed women as carpenters, machinists, diesel mechanics, laborers and truck drivers. One 24-year-old has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Antioch College but now works in Seattle as an auto mechanic, for $5.45 per hour, which, she says, "is better than being an unemployed...