Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With luck, students may be able to witness a spectacular blaze of natural fireworks in the sky tonight or tomorrow night according to Fletcher Watson, Executive Secretary and Research Associate or the Blue Hills Observatory...
...itemized its findings: "Grendeline Holy Oil is not a product of the Sibber tribes of India, and will not assure the users thereof health, wealth, happiness and success. . . . Mintolean Mojou Lucky Oil is not a product of African tribes or of foreign countries, and will not produce luck or have any effect on dice soaked in it. ... Dr. Colbert's House Dressing Balls will not always produce luck, peace, happiness and plenty; or banish discontent...
...Kikuyu eyes British rule merely looked like the invention of lunatics. Even more incomprehensible was the Christian religion. Why, asked incredulous natives, did God scorn polygamy when "only poor men have one wife, and God does not like poor men." Why pray when there is no immediate bad luck! An old man, dying a few years after British occupancy, summed up for his generation: "Soon I shall die, for I have seen enough...
...Luck of the draw was with Riggs, for Quist and Bromwich were seeded in the same half. After four days of play in which the favorites advanced as expected, U. S. tennis fans hoped for a final between Riggs and one of the Australian invaders...
After pocketing the $16,000 first-prize money, Speedster Turner, who has been chasing pylons for eleven years, announced that the sun had set on his giddy racing career. "I can't keep stretching my luck," he drawled. With a decade's earnings of $65,000 in prize money and many times that amount 'for testimonials, magazine articles, movie contracts and other perquisites that fall to a U. S. champion, Speedster Turner plans to cash in on his fame by starting a flying school...