Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took about an hour in the briefing hut to get all the dope. Then the chaplains came in. A Protestant guy and a Catholic guy. Each had a service at the same time in opposite corners. Just said a little prayer for us and then wished us luck. Most everybody goes to one or the other. Some went on to Confession...
...Jackson May, House Military Affairs Committee chairman, claimed credit for this military triumph. His Kentucky blood had been roused by a statement in the pamphlet based on World War I Army intelligence-test figures. These showed that Negroes from New York. Illinois and Ohio (with better schooling and economic luck) got higher intelligence scores than whites from Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky...
...first time in 14 years or so, the quartet of Pew, Grundy, Martin and Davis was singing as one. The Irreconcilables had reconciled. But on no ear did the music fall sweeter than on that of handsome, handshaking Senator James John Davis. Puddler Jim was in the luck again...
...Your job is more important than mine. Good luck...
Last week Joseph Stalin confirmed what Berlin had unhappily admitted two days earlier: the fall of Równe (Rovno) and Luck (Lutsk), an 85-mile thrust into old Poland. Vatutin had bypassed the German-held roads, sent his men into the hub-deep mud of swamps and forests. Outflanked, the Germans retreated...