Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windmill style, were struck by the contrast; like a good rumba dancer, Gehrmann hardly moved from the waist up. He was all legs, eating up the boards with a long (8½ ft.), smooth and relaxed stride. Crumpled in his right hand, Gehrmann clutched something blue-a handkerchief, for luck...
Dunster, with slightly better coordinated lines, suffered from having only two lines to Kirkland's three, and from the Deacon's superior luck--the winning goal was scored on a fluke shot from the blue line which caromed into the nets...
...Luck for the Shepherd. When Shepherd Charal Shatis looked into the strange blue eyes of the son his wife had brought home, he felt some misgivings. But Shatis began to prosper, and he came to believe that Blue Eyes brought him luck...
...blue-eyed lad to Scotland to live with John Gow's parents. In her village on Cyprus, mother Shatis had resigned herself to her loss. She had even grown to love the other child, she said, and father Shatis hoped that the dark boy, too, would bring him luck...
...straight any injustice, but it's so complicated that only most glaring examples are rectified. A standout player who is unable to play Yale can get his letter by the grace of several committee okays; but worthy players who aren't standouts are generally regarded as tough luck cases. The bureaucratic gears can't be oiled up for every unfortunate athlete, and there's no way for a neglected player to beat the "H" out of them...