Word: luck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luck would have it, the Crimson dropped only one of four...
...luck would have it, the Crimson dropped only one of four...
Kuusisto made her first postseason start of the season in place of hard-luck Springer, who broke her collarbone for the second time in 10 weeks with 3:04 left in the semifinal victory over Brown. Fortunately for her teammates, Springer's earlier injury had given the rookie valuable big-game experience over a nine-game stretch during which Harvard clinched the ECAC regular season title...
...luck would have it, both were imminently returning to London--Lewinsky to continue her book tour, McKellen to attend the British premiere of his film Gods and Monsters. When he found himself dateless, McKellen decided to ask Washington's most famous consort. "She was coming to London," said the ever chivalrous knight, "and I thought, 'We want to give her a good welcome...
...goal was truly in sight, and who got there first was largely a matter of speed--Salk's forte--and luck. "Salk was strictly a kitchen chemist," Sabin used to gripe. "He never had an original idea in his life." But imaginative people perennially underrate efficient ones, and at the time, the kitchen chemist--who prepared his vaccine by marinating the virus in formalin--was just what the doctor ordered...