Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What was most important about the elections, in short, was that they were taking place at all. For with any luck, they would constitute the first step toward the construction of the democracy that Viet Nam has never known. The obstacles were many. In a nation torn by terrorism, if only 50% of the 5,250,000 registered voters went to the polls, it would be a signal victory for the government and give the lie to Viet Cong claims that the rebels control-or can coerce on command-most of the nation's population...
...Luck. As far as the public knows, Earhart and Noonan left Lae, New Guinea, on July 1, 1937, on the most dangerous leg of their trip-a 2,550-mile leap to tiny (one square mile) Rowland Island, where no plane had ever landed before. Early on July 2, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, standing by at Rowland, received a series of messages from Pilot Earhart reporting that she was unsure of her position and that she was running low on gas. Her last message, delivered in a broken and choked voice, was a plea...
...made four trips to the islands of the western Pacific to gather evidence of evildoing. In 1960, he returned from the Pacific with a bagful of airplane parts dredged out of Saipan harbor. These, he believed, were the remains of Earhart's twin-engined Lockheed Electra.* No such luck; the collection turned out to be parts from a Japanese plane. In 1964, Goerner got a flash of headlines by producing seven pounds of human bones and 37 teeth. The flyers? Nope, declared a Berkeley anthropologist-they belonged to some late Micronesians...
...fingers of his right hand. He hardly ever gets a base on balls because he swings at practically everything; and he does not bother to study opposing pitchers, or even learn their names. "You never hit the pitcher," he shrugs, "just the pitch." Batting is all a matter of luck anyway. "You no lucky, you get no hits," he says. "You gotta be lucky...
...held some 30 years ago. Thomson has five grandchildren; and in preparation for visits from the older ones, he maintains in his Westfield home a slot machine of the sort classically known as a "one-armed bandit." He even furnishes the kids with dimes to try their luck at the monster. Explains he: "I want to teach them that no matter what they do, they're going to lose money when they gamble...