Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because his "impression of the neighborhood is that it is pretty bad." The Young Republicans show some inclination to elect a gorilla as their club's vice-president. The Atomic Energy Commission blames last summer's $1.5 million bubble-chamber explosion on faulty beryllium windows and says that only luck kept it from being worse...
...Beyond that, the President must have some month-to-month flexibility in the number of men he can call up for service. And the premise that in a situation like today's, a majority of men would be forever free from military service on the basis of mere luck would seem to put unnecessary-and possibly unwise-restrictions on presidential policymaking. As salty old Lieut. General Lewis Hershey, U.S. selective-service chief, said last week for the umteenth time: "I'm un willing to admit that blind chance is better than other methods-bad as they may sometimes...
...house of representatives. But although many whites continued to resist the inevitability of full-scale Negro political participation, there were heartening signs of reasonableness. Amid warnings of violence uttered by embittered Macon County whites, Sheriff Sadler took pains to call his defeat "fair and square" and to wish Amerson luck. "I think the white people knew," said Sadler, "that sooner or later there would be a Negro elected to this office...
...shrewdest of the anti-Castro exiles now actively trying to overthrow Cuba's Maximum Leader. A sturdy 200-pounder, Cuesta had made ten previous trips to Cuba, taking in men and equipment and bringing out agents for debriefing. Last week, on his eleventh trip, Cuesta's luck ran out. No sooner had the raft put ashore than it was spotted by an antiaircraft battery. Two of the men were killed; the other two made it back to the main boat, but were apparently drowned when the boat was sunk minutes later...
...snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna Are not very pure or true. With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack...