Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luck seemed behind the spacecraft at last. Forgotten for the moment was the mare's nest of trouble that had postponed the flight for two days. Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
...working-class yob who decides to chuck it all and live a little. He says ta-ta to his spouse and house, toddles off with a well-educated wench, ends up in Algeria running guns to the rebels and imagining he is out of the ruck and into the luck. Sillitoe was always a careless writer, and now that he is crassly cashing in, he is grossly sprawling out. He is inaccurate: "They were attracted like two magnets in a field of iron filings." He is prolix: "Frank kicked him, a hand cracking on flesh, and the purple, spark-fanged...
...well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke wherever he went. In three days of whistle-stopping by train, auto, helicopter and frigate in Saxony, Schles-wig-Holstein and on the island of Helgoland, his audiences totaled well over 100,000, not only in rural areas, which are normally favorable...
Said Belli: "Servicemen take it for granted, and they're also told by the Government, that if something is defective it's their hard luck. They don't know that even if they're on patrol in Viet Nam, and their rifle goes boom and injures them because it's defective, they can sue the guy that manufactured it." To hear Belli tell it, he could collect damages for the families of the men lost when the nuclear submarine Thresher went down...
Beatty believed in pushing his luck to the limit. When his act began to pall, he mixed lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and hyenas. Then he became the first man ever to mix lions and tigers of both sexes, eventually performing with more than 40 in the cage at the same time. It was a threatening, unstable mixture, and often it exploded. To hear Beatty tell about it was spine-tingling. "Nero [a black-maned lion] stood over me, ready to sink his teeth in my face. Desperate, I planted the palm of my right hand against his nose and shoved...