Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation. One of the purposes of such a streamlined program is to show that we as a nation are far from infallible, that, in large part, we are responsible for the present holocaust. "We have been just as blind as any of those broken peoples. We merely had better luck--the luck of geography and distance" is a typical blast coming from an up-to-date Army lecture...
...page facing this dispatch the Herald Tribune printed, as luck would have it, a picture of Minister to Bulgaria George H. Earle 3d and a dog arriving by clipper at LaGuardia Field...
...Indians "hang" (loiter) in the phone booths in the lobby. Those who hit luck without losing their gains too fast to the horses or to other promoters become "heels," paying perhaps $10 a month for a cubicle on the third floor. The renting agent, Morty Ormont (French for Goldberg), knows a heel is out of business when his hat is gone. The luckiest of the heels move upstairs and become "tenants"; but sooner or later, tenants turn up in the lobby booths as Indians again. Some leading Jollity Building denizens...
...individual events, Don MacKinnon has the best chance of bringing home the bacon. He and Ted Bauer will run the 60-yard high hurdles, and will have some tough competition. But if he has luck on the starts, Don should get into the finals, and possibly place, while Bauer has looked very good in the last week and may surprise. The man to beat in this event, however, will be Walcott of Rice, the world's champion, who holds several indoor records...
...were at sea, searching for subs. We had experienced fair luck for some days. Shortly after sunset last night, word came down to wardroom over bridge voice tube that contact had been made. We took station for depth-charge attack. . . . The sub was close aboard, less than 200 yards distant, on our starboard hand. The contact indicated a well-developed one, of the Nipponese variety (very popular with our ships). . . . The sub was sluggish in her movements-she maneuvered slowly, endeavoring to stay within our turning circle, and cross our wake. After a bit of maneuvering, we made our turn...