Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 3,000 well-wishers, among them the President, gathered at Washington National Airport to see Secretary of State Byrnes off to the Paris Peace Conference. Said Mr. Truman: "The country is behind Mr. Byrnes in his efforts to get a just peace for the world. . . . Good luck, Mr. Byrnes...
Perhaps by luck or by some unfathomable wisdom of these latter-day founding fathers, this constitution is what is needed to solve student problems that are peculiar to Harvard. But this law-making by conjure has achieved just the reverse. Ten years later this product of an elite father and an indifferent mother finds itself in greater disrepute than its pre-1936, constitution-less, predecessor. Ten years in which nearly 50 percent of all members got their start through appointment to one of the unelected Freshman committee and, with this initial advantage, proceeded through four years of Harvard politics...
...mayor of New Orleans flew up for a round of casting. Ralph Edwards sent a Truth or Consequences contestant from Hollywood to try his luck.*Amos & Andy wrote a Script around the stunt...
...Luck. Bikini left plain people as worried as Pravda, but for different, vaguer reasons. In Paris' rue Cambon, about 25 minutes' walk away from the Big Four Conference Hall, the day after Bikini a long narrow mirror fastened to a wall suddenly fell to the ground without apparent cause. A crowd gathered about the broken glass that boded seven years of bad luck to someone. A frowzy woman murmured: "The atom bomb." The people near her nodded gravely...
...last week puttering George Stimpson, who never learned how to make his wealth of contacts pay off in fame, was knee-deep in good luck. His factmongering had hit the jackpot: the Book-of-the-Month Club had picked up his Book about a Thousand Things (Harper; $3.50), a random selection snatched from his disheveled files, and he stood to make $50,000 from it. (Last year his Book about the Bible, a similar sampling from his "B" files, surprised its publisher-and its author-by selling 30,000 copies.) Mildly bewildered, Bachelor George Stimpson muttered...