Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jones Boys. Luck had something to do with Calumet's success-but not too much. Calumet has led all U.S. racing stables in income for five of the past seven years. What Calumet has, besides plenty of capital, is a lot of good horse-sense. All its horses come from the same incubator-1,038 acres of rolling blue-grass just outside Lexington, Ky. Its proprietor is placid Warren Wright, who inherited his millions from Calumet baking powder. His recipe for breeding horses: "Just mix the best with the best and hope for the best...
...Rube," who won 19 straight games for the Giants back in 1912. The record had never been broken, but "Rube" was broke. "The magistrate," said an A.P. dispatch, "took a $5 bill from his billfold, handed it to Marquard, shook hands with him, wished him luck and then dismissed the charge...
...Luck was on my side, for at that moment up came a man whom I recognized as Barbi, the local Communist leader. He also joined in the conversation. Then, seeing me standing near there, he eyed me suspiciously. I stood there with a blank look, and then after a few moments glanced at my watch as if expecting someone. I muttered a few English cuss words such as all Italians have learned. They took it for granted I couldn't understand Italian and continued their talk. Barbi said: 'The way Councilor Gallo went on about red being blood...
...British aim was a producing western Germany that could 1) pay for itself and 2) contribute more coal, machinery, and other exports toward general European recovery. There would, however, be no immediate miracles; experts thought it would take until 1951, even with good luck, to reach the 10.7 million ton ceiling in food-short, materials-short Germany...
...tense warning not to move. Realizing that some danger lurked behind her, she stayed quite still until the snake slid away into the grass. From that day on, her superstitious mother was sure that a great destiny awaited the little girl, for there is an old Indian legend that luck will attend a sitting or sleeping person above whom a cobra has spread its hood...