Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That hit us all pretty hard. About all I could say was 'Okay, Big Friend. Lots of luck to you all.' Then the pilot's own chute opened just before the bomber flipped over her wing and went streaming down in flame...
...motor a bit, opened the office, sold the ticket, carried the baggage to the plane, and finally hedgehopped his passenger to the other end of the line. Once a plane landed on the back of a cow lying on the poorly-lighted Daytona Beach runway. But George's luck held: the cow was killed, but the passengers unscathed...
MacArthur's progress was slow, apparently sure. The Japs' luck in whatever they were trying...
Some Got Through. A few correspondents accompanying the assault troops had better luck (or greater resourcefulness) than others and got their stories to the U.S. fairly promptly. Among them the Chicago Daily News's belligerent Bill Stoneman, the United Press's veteran Henry T. Gorrell and Richard D. McMillan, the New York Herald Tribune's Joseph Driscoll...
Beginning July 1, registrants who pass their physicals will not be earmarked but will be sent to a common pool-an armed forces induction station-and will get their assignments there. For drafted men, from then on, it will be the luck of the draw that will make them soldiers, sailors or Marines...