Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that motor. Over Nova, Ohio, the motor tore loose from its mounting, threw a piece of debris into another propeller, smashing it and leaving the plane with only one propeller to land by. It was an unforseeable accident, due not so much to mechanical deficiency as to ill luck. Aeronauts mourned that the most widely advertised of commercial ships should thus come to grief and shake public confidence in the very event most calculated to promote flying...
...John Singer was the sixth police-man to be killed on duty since Jan. 1, 1926; eleven others had been shot, merely wounded. Police Commissioner George V. McLaughlin emitted a soothing statement: "We are getting all the bad breaks so far. The police are making splendid arrests, but the luck is against them...
...John Goff, 83, the juvenile member howbeit the most infirm, interrupted his indignant thoughts, by retorting through his white moustaches and militant beard: "Yes, and the whole bunch of us may be alive and kicking around for years. We'd better trust to luck and see how the weather is." And he jedked forward suddenly, impatient with his greyhaired unsoldierlike companions...
...They had taken no precautions, their papers were all alike, and the Student Council inflicted the usual penalty of suspension. Then the race was declared "on" once more. College had broken up, but nine freshman substitutes responded quickly to telegrams, rushed to Gales Ferry rejoicing over their personal good luck...
Forewarned of the police raids, all but one of the important Putsch plotters quietly "went abroad". Unlucky Colonel von Luck, head of the Olympic (Militarist) Athletic Club, was arrested, jailed...