Word: lucke
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...Stunned." He might have gone on to graceful retirement. By an apparent stroke of luck, a man of the same name had in fact graduated from Prague University in 1943 and then had obligingly disappeared. But in a country where papers, records, stamps and signatures are of surpassing importance, Günther's eventual exposure was perhaps not so surprising. It was the initial lie about his age that tripped him up. Shuffling old and new papers, a minor West Berlin bureaucrat noticed the seven year discrepancy in ages; after that, the tissue of Günther...
Some of Meadows' bad luck was still trailing along with him. About 18 of the works earlier donated by him to S.M.U., including three attributed to El Greco and two each to Rubens and Van Dyck, may have to have their name tags changed, according to S.M.U. Dean of Arts Kermit Hunter. Meadows is content to let the experts thrash it out. Nothing, he feels, must stand in the way of satisfying the "ever-increasing need to expand the cultural resources of the Southwest-to go hand in hand with the vast technical and industrial development of the area...
Basketball teammates Heisler and Purdy dropped their only matches at Exeter, and, together with Gurry, looked like the best in the bunch. Tibbetts, who had that rough luck against Yale, pushed the top three all season. His only other loss was at Exeter...
...With luck, The Happening might have happened to be a passable picture. But Director Elliot Silverstein, forgetting everything he learned on Cat Ballou, makes his players move with galvanic gestures and broad grimaces that would be too gross for a marionette show. Moreover, the script's idea of wit consists of having George Maharis, as one of the bums, end most of his sentences in the same way: "Bam! Et cetera." "We're all in this together. Et cetera...
Beyond ability, which Proud Clarion proved he has, a horse needs a lot of plain racing luck to weave his way around a field and come from behind. Luck was with him in Kentucky, as it may or may not be tomorrow at Pimlico. But a horse out in front is a horse out of trouble, if he can manage to stay there. I think Barbs Delight...