Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made and also filed a running chronology of events. Stringer Paul Ciotti maintained an almost constant vigil on the street near the scene of the arrests. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook grabbed a plane to San Francisco as soon as he heard the news. "You deserve a little luck in this business," he says. "Who should be on the same plane but Catherine Hearst?" As soon as the seat-belt sign went off, Cook conducted a leisurely interview with Patty's mother. In New York, Associate Editor James Atwater and Senior Writer Ed Magnuson shared the major writing...
...Pentagon and the Justice Department administer separate amnesty programs, and their luck has been no better. Of the 10,000 military deserters the Pentagon is aware of, 84 have completed the alternate-service work. The Justice Department deals with the radicals who evaded the draft and went to Canada, Sweden and Third World countries. Of 4,400 men in this category, only 722 have agreed to alternative service in exchange for the dropping of charges of violating the Selective Service laws. There are many egregious offenders who will not be permitted to come back without serving prison sentences. Others will...
...wife Monisha, she is given the name Treemonisha because she likes to play under the tree. Except for Ned and Monisha, the farm hands are deeply superstitious and tremble when the conjurer Zodzetrick, known as the "goofer dus' man, "comes around with his bags o' luck. Ned and Monisha hope that Treemonisha will grow up to lead the people away from the captivity of their ignorance and fear. Accordingly, in exchange for laundering and woodchopping, they arrange to have the girl educated by a nearby white family. Convinced that Treemonisha's learning is a threat to them...
...past 20 years, she simply picked out the flowers that came closest to the ideal and saved their seeds for replanting: "I put red strings on the flowers that looked good and green ones on those that looked pretty good." Adds Marigold Maven Burpee: "This wasn't just luck, it was persistence. She just did the right thing...
...powerful to take the power themselves, so as to keep it in the family. The reason Harvard graduates have has such a profound influence on America--five of them have been U.S. presidents, countless others presidents of corporations--is not so much their innate talent as their good luck at being born to the right parents. Harvard just added the polish and gave the elite's children a chance to get acquainted with each other...