Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics of the lottery charge that it substitutes blind chance for human judgment, that it replaces the luck of birth and upbringing with the luck of the draw. Why gamble, they ask, when the local draft boards can determine by objective standards who should receive deferments and who should...
...past, theological schools have had little luck with the nation's large philanthropic foundations, Horvath said. He cited the major speech given by Samuel H. Miller, dean of the Divinity School, last month in which Miller said that the foundations fear that if they give a grant to one denomination, they must give...
...with two in reserve, went smoothly. Then came the time to carve. Using an electric knife-"It certainly sounds like a dentist, doesn't it?"-all went well until she reached the rlbs. They would not yield. She attacked with a huge chef's knife. Still no luck. Finally she put down the knife, rested her hands on the table, and looked straight into the camera: "People say that you just carve it into chops, but you try to do it. I certainly can't." And with that, Julia wound up the show...
...promise of lower property taxes. Illinois has taken to needling New York City (see cut). Said one recent ad: "We figure New York will probably have a typhoon next week," and it goes on to say, "Typhoons hardly ever happen north of Pago Pago, but the way your luck has been running it wouldn't surprise us if it happened to youknowwho. First your water dries up. Your lights conk out. No newspapers, no subways. So why not a tropical storm? Or maybe your sewer system will back up and you'll be riding to work on alligators...
...rightist tracts of an embittered man. Yet there was no falling-off in the plain power of his prose. His role in the clash of generations showed an honest man's bad timing, not bad faith or bad judgment; for his literary reputation, though, it was certainly bad luck...