Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anniversary, Prime Minister Attlee and President Truman sent greetings to the Russian people, who well deserved them. With a courage that the world would never forget they had survived the power grab of Clausewitz' disciples from the military colleges and beer halls of Germany. With luck, some of them might even survive what was let loose 30 years ago when a potbellied disciple of Clausewitz came out from behind the bookstacks...
...dark side of the ledger was an announcement by the doctors that Bob Kennedy, wingman who has been the hard-luck recipient of recurring injuries this season, will be out for the rest of the year. Second-line tackles Rocky Stone and Doug Bradlee were also listed as out for the Princeton tussle...
...Tuesday, for the first time in her life alone in her own glass coach, she rode to Westminster to open Parliament with her father and mother. His Majesty's Government and Loyal Opposition joined forces to wish her luck and congratulate her on her "unerring graciousness." Communist William Gallacher refused to join the motion. "I cannot forget," he said, "that on the day this engagement was announced, thousands of Greek citizens were thrown into the prison camps of the reactionary Royalist Greek Government," but he was soon shouted down with cries of "sit down...
Uncle Tom's Cabin. The date was Feb. 13, but their luck was in. The first person they saw was an Italian peasant on a bicycle, a member of the Partisans, who led them to a house where they got a meal of noodles and pig's liver, met the tailgunner (picked up by another member of the local underground) and experienced their first bombing: some P-47s dive-bombed a nearby bridge. As days went by, Chappuis & Co. were moved from house to house, and village to village, towards the Swiss frontier. Once they walked right past...
...Luck. So far, Fowler McCormick has not had too much luck with Labor. An 80-day strike last year by the Redlined Farm Equipment and Metal Workers' Union (C.I.O.) shut down eleven of the company's 22 U.S. plants. Only this week 8,000 Harvester workers ended a four-day walkout over the discharge of three men. Nevertheless, by profit-sharing and pension plans, McCormick eventually hopes to bring permanent peace...