Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they answer not to thy call, walk alone, If they are afraid and cower mutely, facing the wall, O thou of evil luck, Open thy mind and speak out alone...
...Europe. How many people died from influenza, typhus, relapsing fever, malaria, typhoid and smallpox was never recorded, but flu alone killed an estimated 16,000,000. After World War II, the pale horse and his rider never really got started. Health authorities think it was partly a matter of luck. But Europe's, and Asia's, amazing escape from pestilence was also partly due to UNRRA. The story of its great work was told last week in a final bulletin by its health division...
...Franco been a little less sly, and Hitler and Mussolini a little less stupid, Spain would have joined the Axis, Sir Samuel believes. It was largely luck that Spain stayed out and pretended to be neutral-luck, plus Allied economic bait, plus the sympathies of a few Spaniards, notably Count Francisco Gomez Jordana, for two years (1942-44) Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs...
...Reston had put up a better bluff than he knew. When Pundit Krock called Byrnes to try his own luck, the Secretary would not speak to him. ("I just didn't want to lie to him," Byrnes said later.) At that point Jimmy Byrnes called the White House, told the President that, since the Times evidently had the story (and a few others were getting warm, too), it might as well be released. Less than an hour later the story...
...wide, serpentine Magdalena, chief communications line from coast to capital. (Cartagena's harbor is connected with the Magdalena by a canal.) Last year, Barranquilla handled 80% of the nation's exports of cotton, coffee and oil. On Colombia's Pacific side, filthy, swampy Buenaventura (literally, good luck) had made good its name: the outlet for the booming western industrial regions, Buenaventura accounted for almost half of Colombia's entire foreign trade...