Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disintegrating Canvas. But in shifting from oil to oils, Meadows' luck and his eye for a bargain failed him. Last December he invited in Dallas Art Dealer Donald Vogel to discuss putting some of his French masterpieces up for sale. "It was a crushing experience," Vogel recalls. "When I examined a Bonnard closely, it just disintegrated before my eyes. The colors were not right, the texture was not right, and I knew that the picture was elsewhere, in a rather noted collection...
...hunger strike might have been better received by the Radcliffe Administration had it been staged before the lottery determining which girls may live off-campus. The girls who were starving themselves seemed as upset over their bad luck in the lottery as over the policy of restricting off campus living...
...Luck plays some part in making a reputation, she admitted last week, but persistence pays the rent. "My aim," she adds, "is to have at least one excellent story each month." She can take the rest...
...overcoats who lounge all day along Hanover Street or Salem Street could run the table on the best of them. As for hustling, hustling is a subtle game of just misses and sincerest attempts. At Uncle's they laugh when you miss an easy shot and say tough luck when you call the striped ball and the solid blue goes...
Canada thus won its freedom without rebellion, or without major national heroes. Perhaps it was good (or bad) luck. Perhaps it was more, for after all, character is fate. In the 18th century, as Historian Ramsay Cook points out, English-speaking Canadian settlers had rejected the American Revolution, just as 13 years later, in 1789, French-speaking settlers rejected the French Revolution. As a result, Canada's 1867 charter contained little thought of revolutionary fervor or political ideology. In contrast to the American Declaration of Independence, with its ringing "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," Canada...