Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luck and his last minute capitulation he had worked his way out of the sump-hole of unpopularity in which he had been sloshing triumphantly for so long. The railroad strike had screened his undignified scramble for the bank. But if he remembered jumping into it in the first place he gave no sign...
...evidence points toward a heavily favored Blue nine taking the field tomorrow; luck and Eli over-confidence will be Coach Stahl's strongest assistants...
George VI, King of Great Britain, is no Bing Crosby. But a long-standing joke around the palace, propagated by his horsy daughter Elizabeth, has been the King's bad luck on the track. Last week the joke had lost its point. "A most notable feature of the present racing season," reported the Times, "is the success of the King both as an owner and breeder...
Juliana had better marital luck than her mother. Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was another German princeling, and vaguely suspected of Nazi sympathies to boot. But his record of intense loyalty to his Queen and adopted country during the war has made Prince Bernhard the most popular man in Holland today. In the last year of the war, he served as head of the Dutch resistance movement, later organized relief of stricken areas...
...talking about was Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians' pride & joy had just pitched a no-hitter that was a prime cut above the average no-hitter. This time luck had practically nothing to do with it; the 27-year-old Iowa strong-boy had just.rared back and blown down the Yankees, baseball's most fearsome array of sluggers. The victory tasted doubly sweet after two recent defeats and press-coop barbs that Feller's $45,000-a-year right arm was losing its sting...