Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With some luck, Wilson may be able to buy back public confidence before he faces the voters again. The price may well be continued antagonism of the unions. But just as U.S. unions have a way of quarreling with the Democratic Party and then supporting it at the polls, British labor may well close ranks. "When it comes to the crunch," said a T.U.C. official, "we'll all stand together." Even if that forecast is correct, there is no indication where the rest of the country will stand...
Laver was hardly a shoo-in. Driving rains interrupted play and turned the venerable club's tournament into a slippery game of chance. As Roche advanced toward the finals, Laver's luck looked even less assured. In matches earlier this year, Roche defeated Laver five out of seven times. Roche is seven years younger than Laver and, at 5 ft. 10 in., 175 Ibs., considerably stronger...
...lower levels of Lamont. The Harvard Library Committee is now in the process of trying to raise $5 million for the underground library expansion in the area between Widener, Houghton, Lamont and President Pusey's house. Two of the projected four floors will go to Houghton and, with luck, fill its space needs on into...
...adding his own distinctive touches to enhance the comforts of the house. Recent visitors noticed a new bulletproof glass wall beside the swimming pool and a sound system to soothe the presidential nerves with the piped-in music of Mantovani and Kostelanetz. And he has already had some luck: his post-purchase survey of the land showed that it was not 21 but 26 acres in extent-a five-acre bonanza that Nixon's advisers estimate could eventually be worth as much...
...army, most of which dies in the process-for having as commanding officer the grossly incompetent Major General William George Keith Elphinstone. "Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such a ruinous defeat," remarks Flashman with customary charity. "We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again." At his best when savaging real people and slinking through real events. Flashman keeps his narrative moving smartly. Perhaps to make room for other sorts of depravity, sex is at a happy minimum, though he does deal out the Kama Sutra ("It is all nonsense...