Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coop officials admit that preventing large textbook shortages in the past was mostly a matter of luck. By calling publishers at the last minute, they were often able to speed up the delivery of books -- a process that normally takes a few weeks -- to a few days. But last fall, when many publishers changed their procedures, the Coop's luck...
Blunden, who usually writes pastoral verse, recently edited the collected works of Wiltred Owen. When the news of his appointment was brought to him he remarked, "What a bit of luck...
...Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with a gaudy bas-relief of a train steaming around a mountain...
...feel not only the normal dismay at going into the service but resentment at having been singled out while others in roughly similar situations escape. With better reason than usual, he may ask; Why me? "The way things are now," said one Manhattan inductee, "half go and half luck...
...baton, sat in on bull sessions and conducted the rhythm of the conversation, cueing each participant as though he were a virtuoso soloist. Superstitions were rampant. One contestant, lest he be jinxed, ran off with his hands clasped over his ears each time someone tried to wish him good luck...