Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarter long, had been thrown out with a trayful of dressings. The search built up gradually. Staff members, using a Geiger-Müller Counter (an instrument for detecting radioactive rays), successively poked into the incinerator, the laundry, the garbage, wastepaper baskets, the hospital floors, roofs, foundations. No luck...
...Luck: Good & Bad. "Luck played a big part in our getting stories out. At third day's end, when the battle was all but won, reporters returned to their ships to write. They never try to rush onto a beachhead typewriter in hand...
...saying good-by to baseball forever . . . I leave it to the public and to my friends to decide whether I was wrong or the rule was wrong. . . . Good luck and good-by to everyone...
...group and officer under instruction. Comparing this war to a three-ring circus he reminded them that there would be excitement in every part of the world in the next year or two, and they would have the opportunity to be involved in it. Captain Murphy then wished them luck after expressing his envy of their chance to take part actively in the thick of the attack...
Where's Sammy? is highly readable, nevertheless. Sammy Schulman, 37, has trotted his five-by-five frame over much of the globe, seen a lot of history. He hopes to see more-Allied soldiers "walking down the Fifth Avenue of Tokyo," for example. Maybe he will. Luck seems to like...