Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army-Navy delegation sent to London three weeks ago, he was by far the most important. Britain already had the men for the second front, although she will be glad to get U.S. help.* She already had the will to help the Russians by diversion and, with luck, herself to strike a killing blow at Adolf Hitler. She already had her own and the U.S. navies, an air force that was growing mightily through her own and U.S. production...
...later with lots of Green Bowlers who never paid any more attention to me than to anyone else. I was, as nearly as I could find out, one of the large majority of ordinary officers in my class-neither outstanding nor below average-whose promotion is a matter of luck, and I was passed over three times. If there was anything to your theory, I should have been promoted...
...Claude Auchinleck the British Middle East Commander in Chief, wired congratulations to Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's defending Eighth Army: "Well done indeed, Eighth Army. Stick it. Hang on to him. Never leave him. Don't let him get away. Give him no rest. Good luck...
Last fortnight, the luck ran out. During the filming of a shark-octopus battle, Jacare was spilled from the tricky jangada. Though he managed to swim away, he was caught in a treacherous current and, like his fisher-father before him, swallowed...
...just lucky," drawls Bonham, who was born in 1913, the 13th child of a California wheat rancher. "Anyone could win with the Yankees behind him." Skillful Tiny Bonham will need luck to bear out his fans' predictions that he may win 30 games this season...