Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shot. As the last round began, Harmon had a two-stroke lead, and reacted to the pressure by turning taciturn. The only man with a good chance to catch him was husky, hard-luck Chick Harbert, famous for tremendous drives and poor finishes. But Harbert fell apart. Harmon, a little more on edge now, showed it by biting his lips and asking the crowd after a drive: "Where is it? Where is it? Did anyone see my ball...
Parasites & Prosecutors. For Billie, the reformatory experience seemed the culmination of a tough-luck life. When she was born in Baltimore 33 years ago, her mother was 13, her father 15, and they didn't bother to get married until Billie was three. She began to work at six, scrubbing steps before school and minding babies after, was only 14 ("big for my age, had big breasts, big bones") when she got her first singing job in a Harlem joint at $2 a night. Her first record (Tapping the Barrel) was made with a green young band leader named...
...orange curtain that helped Dickson camouflage his curves was not much help to Big Bill ("Hard Luck") Bevens, the Yankee pitcher. Cardinal bats pounded Bevens for seven runs before he got them out in the first inning. Then Bill, who had lost a one-hitter in last fall's World Series, walked dejectedly to the bench...
...hard luck story, told too glibly to suspicious undergraduates, brought hard luck--in the form of a night in jail--to a middle aged man last night. He was held on charges of trespassing and drunkenness by Cambridge police after taking $10 and a railroad ticket to New York from several Dunster House residents...
...fought with exceptional bravery against the Italians and Germans, what had happened to the spirit of seven years ago. The lieutenant shrugged: "This war in Greece is a battle between the United States and Russia. It happens that it's being fought here. That is our bad luck. But you can't expect us to fight your battle singlehanded-at least not with the old spirit...