Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Arnell is the son of a British contractor who opposed his son's music career. In 1939, after studies at the Royal College of Music in London, the young composer decided to burn his early manuscripts and try his luck elsewhere. He picked the U.S. for his future. In New York he taught composition, served as a music consultant to BBC, and became a protege of Sir Thomas Beecham. In the past three years Sir Thomas has performed his young compatriot's Sinfonia and his First Symphony...
...Blair House at 8:30 a.m., followed by Secret Service men and reporters, a tiny old lady stepped from a knot of onlookers, said: "I just wanted to shake hands." The President shook hands. And once, when traffic halted to let the President pass, a cab driver yelled: "Good luck, Harry!" Harry Truman grinned and waved...
...Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff these were critical hours. With luck he might still get his troops safely across the Po, but German luck was wearing thin...
Harry Truman is a man of distinct limitations, especially in experience in high-level politics. He knows his limitations. He is frank with himself and his friends in visualizing himself as the ordinary, honest politician grown to stature through patience, hard work and luck. He believes in strict party responsibility, a politician's reward for work done, and complete loyalty to friends. (He never forsook Tom Pendergast, even after Boss Tom had gone to Leavenworth.) He is no theorist. In his Administration there are likely to be few innovations and little experimentation...
...fall, the angler's luck improves as the surviving little fish grow larger and harder for the big fish to catch. By winter, the fishing should be even better. But with cold weather, a fishes digestion slows down; it takes 350 hours to digest the same minnow it would digest in several summer hours...