Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closed was Morse certain that he had outpointed former Congressman Robert Duncan, 47, for the party's senatorial nomination. With returns nearly complete, Morse, 67, squeezed through by 173,000 votes to 167,000, a margin of 2%. Even at that, the victory was more a matter of luck than a test of Morse's strength...
France, which had fallen apart with such appalling rapidity, now seemed to coalesce with the same amazing speed. Partly, it was the result of timing. By good luck or design, De Gaulle had chosen the proper moment to move: the striking workers were running out of money (the French unions have no strike funds), and the nation as a whole was tired of the inconveniences of living in an immobilized country. Partly, too, it was the response of a nation to a heroic leader. The turnabout illumined the dilemma of the majority in an age of instant communication, when extremists...
...Little Luck...
...Looking at it realistically," captain Bo Keefe said yesterday. "We could be one of the top ten--with a little luck of course...
...recalls, was the smoothest part of the assignment. Airline schedules were so fouled up and so many potential travelers had given up in disgust that he found himself the only passenger on an Air France 707 to London. After catching a rare flight to Le Bourget airport, his luck held and he managed to get the last Hertz car available. Then, like his colleagues fanning out from Paris to Lyon to Marseille, Gooding went out to get his first taste of tear gas and to learn that a press brassard on a coat sleeve would be an open invitation...