Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a pitcher seems well on the way toward hurling a no-hit game, players and fans go to outlandish lengths to avoid mentioning it. They keep fingers crossed and pretend nothing unusual is occurring. It is an old superstition; they are loth to do anything that might change luck...
...hook Fish in a district that has been Republican longer than the oldest oldsters can remember will take more than an angler's patience, more than luck. But this might well be the year. Ham Fish knows it. For the first time in his 22 years of political campaigning he has opened campaign headquarters, is working hard...
Adding a feminine touch, Sweetman called for girl wardens to try their luck with a non-explosive bomb. A score of hardy Radcliffe students volunteered, crowding around the fire and putting it out without difficulty...
...this year the Army ran into bad luck in the second game of the season. Riding high after knocking off a competent Syracuse aggregation, the men in blue were given a beating by Princeton last week, 3-0. But even in this setback, the play of the Cadets was superior. Net-minder Crain was singled out for especial praise by the scribes, and the Varsity can thus expect no easy moments around the enemy goal...
This is, of course, no time to start a controversy-it would be out of place and in bad taste-on the contrary, we beg you to convey our best wishes to the boys, and the best of luck. We need lots of the same while struggling with Jack Frost-building an airport north of the General's boulevard terminus...