Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Irishmen and horse players understood. Jimmy O'Neill had been having a run of good business luck, was betting that his philanthropic gesture would keep it from breaking...
...steep and narrow alleys, but not this time over politics. The issue was more intimate. In Italy, as much as anywhere else, war and military occupation had played hob with marriages; but men & women who wanted to shed their mates and start afresh with new ones were out of luck. By virtue of the 1929 Lateran Treaty, the state followed the law of the church, which in rare cases grants annulments (30 out of 75 requests from all over the world in 1944-45)-but never divorce...
...winner would face problems that could hardly be handled from an easy chair. Chile had become the international Thin Man. The cost of living had doubled since 1939. A dozen eggs cost 60?, an ordinary shirt $6 and the average worker earning about $1 a day was out of luck. Even Chile's famed social laws, which insured him against practically everything, were powerless to buy him shirt or eggs. From his predicament spiraled massive social problems: poor public health (devastating tuberculosis and infant mortality rates), declining industrial output, alcoholism...
...Byrnes climbed into the President's plane, the Sacred Cow, and soared off. He would need luck. Once more the U.S. and Russia were meeting at the council table, and once again it would be a meeting between political enemies, not friends. U.S. weapons: its military potential, the atomic bomb, the moral force of its people...
...Shakespeare was not a manufactured article. He happened. So did I. We must take our luck in the matter of genius. Short of that we must get on with American mass production...