Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Savio did not really explain what was bothering him or what he expects to do now. His cryptic excuse for quitting was: "Lest I feel deserving of the charge of 'Bonapartism,' which even I sometimes have made against myself, I'd like to wish you good luck and goodbye." In a rambling letter to the campus Daily Californian, Savio indicated that he had not lost his selfesteem. "I should do a great disservice to our community if I were to make myself indispensable," he wrote. "And in recent weeks I have become very nearly indispensable...
Although he has won more races (5,100) and more money ($33,000,000) in less time (16 years) than any other jockey who ever lived, Willie Shoemaker, 33, figures his luck is mostly bad - in the Kentucky Derby, anyhow. Remember 1957, when he had the race all but won on Gallant Man, only to misjudge the finish line, stand up in the stirrups and lose by a nose? Then there was 1958, and a colt named Silky Sullivan, who couldn't run but tried; and 1960, when he rode Tompion, who could run but wouldn...
...contrast, participants in Harvard's Project Tanganyika must take a leave of absence if they wish to spend a full year in Africa. Monro said, however, that the University has had "good luck in explaining this kind of thing to the draft board." "Our faculties would be dubious about trying to stretch an umbrells over someone not actually enrolled in school," he added...
...silk gown, and high-heeled shoes for the occasion. Her vast hazel eyes downcast, she whispered "Thank you, thank you," as a parade of lamas and top-hatted guests pressed forward to present the royal couple with cards marked with mystic symbols and heaps of white scarves for good luck...
...finally landed a job lettering a comic magazine; later that same year, he went to teach at a Minneapolis art school. There he finally overcame his shyness long enough to ask Joyce Halverson, an instructor's pretty, blue-eyed sister, for a date. As Charlie Brown's luck would have it, Joyce slipped on a candy wrapper while they were skating and she tumbled on the ice. But she picked herself up unhurt, and soon they were married...