Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relatively little damage during the Nazi occupation. The Belgian Congo had remained untouched, as had the country's foreign financial assets. Belgian industry kept working (on German orders) throughout the war. The country was quickly liberated, and its industry went to work for the Allies. All that was luck. But there was more to it. "Good sense," says Spaak, "knows how to make use of good luck...
...sophomore who carried a rabbit and lollipops to 'Cliffe tests, for luck and sustenance, said, "At Harvard, I wouldn't dare...
...eyelash. He remembered turning a second before the blast-if he had not, his spine would have been blown out. Four heavy buckshot had plowed into his arm, shattering bone and tearing flesh. Another had entered his chest. But he would live, keep the arm and, with luck, regain...
Jackie Darthard simply had the bad luck to fight there before the new regulations went into effect...
When Brigadier General Savage came down to take over the hard-luck 918th Bomb Group, he found an outfit whose morale and fighting efficiency were shot. They had seen too many of their ships and men go down and were pretty sure they weren't accomplishing a thing. Savage changed all that. He did it by singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such...