Word: luck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seized his payroll records. A roommate, Darrell Stephens, 55, told the Fresno Bee, "The FBI has been harassing us for two weeks now... The only reason they got [Strange] is because he was working there that night, and he was the only one working. It was just his bad luck. [Strange and I] didn't do anything; they're just fishing." Days after making these statements, Stephens, convicted in 1978 of rape and robbery, was jailed for failing to register as a sex offender...
...WHEN ANY OF THE CLINTONS APPEAR ON THE COVER: Since 1992 there have been 39 covers with at least one Clinton as the newsmaker de la semaine. Readers cried uncle long ago, begging us to give them a break. No such luck. But considering that those stories generated more than 27,000 letters over the same years, we think we've seen our share of retaliatory thrusts. Nah, we know we have...
When he returned, he noticed a clear halo surrounding the yellow-green growth of a mold that had accidentally contaminated the plate. Unknown to him, a spore of a rare variant called Penicillium notatum had drifted in from a mycology lab one floor below. Luck would have it that Fleming had decided not to store his culture in a warm incubator, and that London was then hit by a cold spell, giving the mold a chance to grow. Later, as the temperature rose, the Staphylococcus bacteria grew like a lawn, covering the entire plate--except for the area surrounding...
...Wright brothers and their invention, then, sparked a revolution as far-reaching as the industrial and digital revolutions. But that revolution did not come about by luck or accident. It was vision, quiet resolve and the application of scientific methodology that enabled Orville and Wilbur to carry the human race skyward. Their example reminds us that genius doesn't have a pedigree, and that you don't discover new worlds by plying safe, conventional waters. With 10 years of hindsight, even Orville Wright admitted that "I look with amazement upon our audacity in attempting flights with a new and untried...
...Rudolf). I told him I would be in Nairobi the next summer and wanted to see his exciting hominid fossils. A year younger than I, he had chosen, after becoming disenchanted with the safari business, to follow in his parents' footsteps. It appeared that he too possessed the "Leakey luck" and was well on the way to stardom in paleoanthropology...