Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want of horizontal space, but these modern towers lack the airy quality of European cathedrals or New England spires. They strive towards heaven irreligiously. The tone of the city is very Jewish, a bit raucous, and more than a little disappointed in spite of itself. One rarely smells good luck in the bustle, and never fullfillment. But stimulation, hope, excitement, yes, if sometimes of a baleful, hopped-up variety. Manhattan seems often like an exhausted animal on No-Doze, chasing its own tail...
...streak has now grown to 32, and four of the players who almost punctured it last season will be trying their luck again...
...that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of parternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity. Had my father lived he would have lain on me at full length and would have crushed me. As luck had it, he died young. Amidst Aeneas and his follows who carry their Anchises on their backs, I move from shore to shore, alone and hating those invisible begetters who bestraddle their sons all their life long...
Died. William O'Dwyer, 74, New York City's bluff, ebullient Democratic mayor from 1946 to 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The luck of the Irish "Billo" had, at least in the beginning-immigrant from County Mayo at 20, bartender, hod carrier, New York City policeman, night-school lawyer and overnight hero in 1940 when, as Brooklyn D.A., he uncovered the infamous Murder, Inc. and sent seven of its killers to the chair. That made him mayor of New York, and a good job he seemed to be doing too-until he suddenly quit "because...
...Good luck and keep going "again next weekend...