Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Department, which has been trying for years to force 22 left-wing organizations to register as Communist fronts under the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, has had little luck to date. Despite the long-drawn-out appeals that have stymied it in most cases, the department believes nonetheless that simply by publishing the facts about such groups, it can warn away many innocents and alert unwary members. With this in mind, it started proceedings last week to force the campus-oriented W.E.B. DuBois Clubs to register as a Communist front...
...coups, Lord Caradon worried aloud that "people are going to say: 'These miserable little places should never have been allowed to exist.' They are going to reject these nations with disgust. That would be a bloody disaster." Nations have to begin somehow; occasionally just plain good luck comes along to give them a boost. A few years ago, feudal Libya was written off as a hopeless non-nation-until oil was found floating beneath the deserts. Barren Mauritania may yet bloom from the rich iron and phosphate deposits in its crust. Some unlikely nations have been struggling along...
...luck comes in threes: the past eight weeks have provided a melancholy chapter in U.S. dramatic history. Tennessee Williams (Slapstick Tragedy), Edward Albee (Malcolm) and William Inge have written by far their worst plays...
Papa wanted his first-born son to become a trader; Mama, who came of a long line of rabbis, was determined that he should become a scholar. So when Papa left the tiny Russian-Jewish village of Uzlian to try his luck in America. Mama immediately sent her five-year-old son off to her uncle, a penniless rabbi who lived several hundred miles away. For almost five years the little boy lived there. He was an only child among a household of grownups; he rose with them at sunup and for twelve or 14 hours a day intoned pages...
...team championship depends to a large extent on the luck of the draw. For example, Harvard's number four player could draw Yale's powerful number one man in the first round, while Penn's fourth player might face Trinity's meagre top player in the first-round, or vice-versa...