Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council report also made a few suggestions to the Hygiene Department, which were emphatically rejected. Since the Department turned up with a surplus of slightly over $30,000 last year, it is now in a position to consider some of these recommendations. Dr. Bock attributes the surplus primarily to luck, for there were no epidemics last year. But the last few years have been short on epidemics so that the Department has accumulated a $100,000 reserve. This reserve was one of Dr. Bock's goals, and he may justly feel satisfied that it prepares him for an emergency...
Friends and neighbors began piling in and the phone rang without stopping. The Cohens' four daughters, two of whom are married, were jubilant. Benjamin Cohen, a laundry manager, and his wife sat in stunned silence for a while, scarcely able to believe their good luck on that fine evening last June...
...eyed police reporter who covers St. Paul for the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search of news. With his luck, aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity, Presbrey regularly beats the ears off his rivals on fast-breaking stories...
...from an apartment hiding place. In trying to escape, Van Meter ran in front of Presbrey's car. Presbrey jammed on the brake and the cops poured 40 slugs into Van Meter. Now, after such narrow escapes, Paul Presbrey is getting a little mystical about his luck. Says he: "Sometimes it scares me. But I couldn't stop going if I wanted...
...review, the Prime Minister was halted by a shaggy sadhu (holy man), black-bearded and maned, who thrust a bouquet of chrysanthemums into his hand. Graciously, Nehru took the gift. On the ramp's top, he turned and clasped hands in a farewell namasthe. "Goodbye and good luck," he called...