Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Central Government had only 29 tiny river steamers, 10,000 wooden junks, 1,000 to 3,000 trucks in various stages of decrepitude, four CNAC passenger planes. "It will be like emptying a lake with teaspoons," said a Chungking official. "We'll be in luck if we all get back in ten years...
...Hearst papers will drop two minor-league strips, Tim Tyler's Luck and Jungle Jim, will sneak them back in when the creators get their boys into more peaceful pursuits...
...Saturday Evening Post, which crows ("Post luck!") when its prayerful leaps land safely, was also in a subdued mood. War's end found the Post's new star, Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), starting a series of "human, intimate" weekly pieces which promised to follow a B-29 crew "in the long, arduous flight from the plains of Kansas to the bombing run over Japan." His first article got them as far as California...
...President's luck was good. He often scooped in the chips when nobody called his raise. Whenever anybody won on an uncalled hand, the President invariably smiled and referred to it as "an Archbishop of Canterbury hand." He used the phrase often, but he would not explain...
...clothes, then sends him on a mission, a sort of knightly quest. On his triumphant return, the merchant adopts him as a son or ward, discomfits the wicked suitor and settles a little fortune on the hero. Moralists used to complain that this fortune was gained by pure luck. On the contrary, it was gained by the hero's discovery of the place and parentage that were his by right...