Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlefield." To make sure that he would be first on the wire with the story, Srodes ran off to file before Helms had finished. He tipped a Reuters reporter in a corridor to cover the rest of the speech. Although it was a stroke of luck, Srodes' feat showed unusual dedication to duty. He was not at the Homestead just for business; he was also on his honeymoon...
...next morning resembled an army recruiting post during World War I. A ragtag army of bums, miners, Eskimos, fishermen, Athabascans, acidheads, and students had assembled in the building to defend civilization from an enemy that most of them had never seen. Many of the men were simply drifters whose luck had run out in Fairbanks and who wanted to earn enough money for the next month's grubstake. The government clerks passed any high school kid who could lie about his age with a straight face and any drunk who could look sober enough for a three-minute interview...
...defense deserved most of the credit. Jim Fabiani, one of the most versatile athletes in the House, smashed a roller halfway to third base to start Quincy's four run rally in the last inning, and Eliot's errors and a single by catcher Bob Teske did the rest. Luck, Not skill...
Shorter had better luck in the two-mile run, where he beat the Crimson's Dave Potteti and Tim McCloone in a meet record time of 8:50.7. The loss was Pottetti's first this season in the two-mile...
...frustrating." recalls Levin, "since so much depended on the luck of the draw. We had demolished Amherst 9-0 earlier in the season, but they advanced more players into subsequent rounds than we did, even though they had no one outstanding performer...