Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as the Ace With Nine Lives, and he knew flying in all its phases -from production and planning to fighting and stunting. In a profession steeped in superstition his luck was legendary, and he was his own most faithful believer. When only 16 he launched a glider from a hill near Munich, crashed ingloriously in a cabbage patch. To gaping villagers, he cracked that the vicinity's "magnetic attraction" made flying impossible. Like Hermann Göring, he flew with Richthofen's Flying Circus, and his bag of 62 planes was second only to the Baron...
...square feet of flight deck glistening under the Mediterranean sun, she seemed unsinkable. Men on the off watch were washing up for tea. Suddenly there was a crash amidships to starboard; all over the ship the lights went out. Every man knew that the Ark's luck-insurance had lapsed. A torpedo had found...
...calmly (said one survivor) "as though going down a gangway at Gibraltar," the crew took up their lifebelts and filed above. On a ladder a rating said to an officer: "Damned hard luck on the old lady, sir." The officer patted the sailor's shoulder...
...that publicity-wise Groupers, who for years not only welcomed but pursued the press, have lately avoided reporters like the plague both in Britain and the U.S. Evangelist Buchman, who is now trying to convert Maine to MRA, last week dodged correspondents everywhere he went. MRA has had little luck in Maine since its advent there last June. The general Down East reaction to its smooth, eupeptic preachers: "What's the catch...
Bill Dwyer, in 1936. Last week they shrugged their shoulders, decided to change their luck by changing their name: to the Brooklyn Americans...