Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis have captured, virtually intact, a sweptwing, Soviet-made Sukhoi-7, the basic Soviet tactical attack aircraft. It is the first Sukhoi to fall into Western hands-and its capture is a coup of considerable significance. The Israelis acquired the Sukhoi as the result of sheer luck. Its Egyptian pilot bailed out after the plane was hit over the Giddi Pass in Sinai. The Sukhoi then made an unbelievably smooth belly landing in the soft, flat sand. Trucked away under camouflage nets, it was quickly made flightworthy. Israeli pilots who have flown it find that the Sukhoi reaches a Mach...
...Hard Luck...
...been a good thing for Old Nassau. They're on a preferable emotional plane now, if on a lower indifference curve. And Princeton is always at its best before the television cameras. And you must also remember that four lost fumbles and four interceptions, and some bad field goal luck at the end of the Yale game, did not help the Tigers. Dartmouth's backs will finally meet some resistance today; the first time since Harvard. And I'd like to see the Big Green try to stop Brian MacBean and other offensive weapons. I just don't think...
Granatelli. "the hard-luck kid of Indianapolis." described his enormously successful Triangle marketing technique consisting of personality, product, and the STP name-which has increased the sales of his STP Corporation from $9 million to $52 million since he became its president six years...
...TRIP DOWN. We left not long after midnight Thursday. Luck was with us: we had a Volkswagen bus to get us there, and a house in Georgetown to hold us. But all was not pleasant. Outside, a cold rain fell; and inside, with ten people and luggage, we could hardly move...