Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fright and disillusionment was abroad in Britain. This disaster gave neither call nor lift to the human spirit, as had Dunkirk and the bombs. But one quality of the people stood out: Britons blamed only Britons. Gone was the cloying tendency to blame everything on the war and bad luck. Britons looked to themselves as they had not for a long time. That is their strength, and it may be their salvation...
...TIME hopes to have better luck in convincing AP's Berlin correspondent...
...hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already won two and tied one, so (though there was a fifth match to play...
...Luck...
Many students who managed to get hold of some of the scarce volumes were out of luck when their lists were changed, the book office relates. If they put their names on them or defaced the volumes in any way, they found themselves with an extra book on their hands for which they were "financially responsible...