Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With luck the drivers would get to Kunming in eight days. During the three months the road was closed, droves of coolies had improved the shoulders of its hairpin turns, the surface of its straightaways. The first day dawned cloudy-good luck again, for the Japanese had announced their determination to blast the road off its hills with bombs. During the day raiders came over from their new bases in French Indo-China, and here & there they found the little ribbon and snipped it. But 75,000 coolies were waiting for them, and wherever there was a direct hit, this...
Bill Cunnnigham of the Post: "The Dartmouth team is potentially strong, but has had hard luck. Last year was a bad one but this one should be better. Harvard was weak against Michigan. Dartmouth showed splashes of power and passing in the Yale game and has a good backfield with John Krol and Ray Wolfe. The score will be 20-6 in favor of the Indians...
With her mother and father looking on, poised, 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, spoke to child evacuees at home and overseas: "My sister is by my side," she concluded. "Come on, Margaret." Princess Margaret Rose, 10: "Good night, children." Elizabeth: ". . . And good luck...
McCarthy success is not mere luck. Oil men say he never knows when to stop drilling. Before McCarthy, the unwritten rule on the Gulf Coast was: "When you haven't found it after going 200 feet into the Frio (oil-indicating sand), start tearing down the rig because it just isn't there." In League City he drilled 600 feet into the Frio before finding one of the most important pay sands in Texas...
...film audience, the story surely gives Providence a thoroughly outstanding workout. Ginger Rogers' good fortune starts off with the gift of a $350 gown, includes $6000 won on a sweepstakes ticket and ends up with Ronald Colman as her grand prize. Ronald gets Ginger, and that's good enough luck for anyone...