Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford of Siloam Springs, Ark.-and navigator-Lieut. Jacob C. Shively of Indianapolis-headed aft to help. They were on the catwalk in the bomb bay when a shell plowed in and exploded alongside them. It blew the navigator down on to the bomb doors. It was good luck they didn't open. He had no chute...
Already a center of controversy, Wilder's jumbled resume of man's history should mystify only those who worry their heads over hidden meanings instead of adjusting their imaginations to spectacular stagecraft. Perfectly clear, too, is Wilder's optimistic conclusion that mankind, for all its bad luck and narrow escapes, is indestructible...
...case you're not that much of a baseball fan, "The Sun Field" is that part of a baseball park where the players have the sun in their eyes. Most of them wear sun-glasses, but Tiny Tyler, Broun's hero, trusts to luck to pick fly balls out of the air when he's playing there. His luck runs out, though, when he falls for a brainy blonde sportswriter, and talks her into marrying him. Judith--the blonde--wants Tiny to stay a tobacco-chewing ball player; Tiny wants to read Schopenhauer so he can keep up with Judith...
...luck...
John Little McClellan, 46, Arkansas, a former Congressman who called himself a New Dealer "but no rubber stamp." Intense John McClellan tried to get into the Senate in 1938 by tackling the machine Hattie Caraway had built around Arkansas's U.S. Marshals, had better luck this year when the State's other Senator, John E. Miller, resigned to take a Federal judgeship...