Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every department of play except shooting, where the Varsity had woeful luck in the first half, the Barclay team showed considerable improvement. Leo Page was especially alert on rebounds off the Crimson backboard, following his shots aggressively, and Bill Henry and Bill Harford were steady guards...
...Only the wealthy, the lucky, or foreign officialdom have a chance to find a place to sleep in Nanking. By a stroke of luck and persistence in following up a Shanghai newspaper ad, we discovered the little house which is our domicile and TIME-LIFE'S Nanking office. I cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen...
Oops! When-by virtue of guile, luck or the dexterity of an acrobat-he gets a seat, he immediately becomes conscious of another startling fact. The seats are too small, and his posterior is subject to the same grip which clamps once exerted on the necks of photographers' victims...
Boola, Boola. As a matter of fact, Soekarno lives in terror of assassination, although the passionate loyalty and vigilance of the men around him would make an attempt difficult. Few men in the postwar world evoke the fanatic devotion of millions as does this 45-year-old child of luck and revolution. He is tall for an Indonesian (5 ft. 8 in.) and, by native standards, superlatively handsome. His Malay is self-consciously choice; in fact, he is so insistent on advancing the native speech that he is called Indonesia's Webster (meaning Noah, not Daniel). He is quite...
Many History 1 students will find themselves out of luck if they try to draw the Hayes or Lucas texts from Boylston Reading Room, where there are long waiting lists for vacation reservations...