Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stiner's Oregon State team had developed unexpected strength. The game was played in a downpour of rain-such a downpour that running, kicking, passing, handling the ball and above all the nice timing required for the operation of Stanford's T formation, were all matters of luck. The stage for the Beaver touchdown was set by a Stanford fumble on the 14-yd. line...
Married. North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57; and Evalyn Washington McLean, 19, daughter of wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Washington. The bride's mother is owner of the Hope Diamond, traditional "bad luck" stone...
...Cornell was caught with her pants napping, but as luck would have it, the sleeper pass to the man on the sidelines was bad and Syracuse failed to score...
...line and put the stadium lights out, 3) ran out of gas. Landing willy-nilly, he headed for a crowded parking lot, plunked his ship down in a driveway, rolled to a stop ten feet short of the nearest automobile. Said an astounded superior: "That used up all the luck he's entitled...
...overlook the fragmentary remains of such creatures as worms, starfish, sea urchins, etc. When oilmen strike a wildcat gusher, they sometimes spend from $1,000 to $2,500 for an analysis of the microfossils which characterize it, so that finding another such well will depend less on luck...