Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent on a confidential mission to England in 1937 to keep a shipment of coal out of the Nationalists' hands. He is beaten up, shot at and framed for murder. He is chased up dusty stairways and down drab, foggy alleys. He wins out mostly-through stubbornness and luck...
Said Michigan's cagey Fritz Crisler, who had more luck halting Army's two super-dupers than most coaches: "Can they murder you, and in such different ways...
First day out, the woods were so noisy with dry leaves that no one had any real luck. Governor Hildreth got a porcupine, ceremoniously toasted its liver for lunch. He also used his deer rifle on a partridge, cleanly cut off the bird's head. Next day he missed a deer at 25 yards (his gold-rimmed glasses were steamed by the rain). But on the third day he bagged his buck...
That afternoon (at 4:21 by some odd coincidence), a cable was delivered to me at the TIME office. It read: SEND SIZES SUIT, NECK, WAIST AND SOCKS. CLOTHES RUINED BY MOTHS. GOOD LUCK, LOVE. Now I was beginning to feel like a civilian. After all, who ever heard of moths destroying G.I. clothes...
...world. Japan's strategic plan, its climax an invasion of the Aleutians, bombardment of the U.S. Northwest and seizure of critical areas, had "initially failed when she missed the opportunity of landing troops on Hawaii." George Marshall made it crystal clear that the U.S. had had much good luck in the war before it had much good management...