Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappear" in Argentina means to be taken away by men in mufti who claim to be members of the country's security forces. When the desaparecido's family applies for habeas corpus, the government often claims to know nothing, if it replies at all. With luck, the missing person reappears in jail. The death of Lestrem, who according to human rights reports had been arrested in 1976, tortured and then released by Argentina's military junta, is a mystery. He could have been killed by the military, surmised a Buenos Aires defense lawyer. Or by leftist guerrillas...
...with his team's play. "We have a much stronger team than we had last year," Felske said. "We've played a better match this year; last year it was all bagels and breadsticks. A number of the singles matches could have gone our way, except for some bad luck...
Despite Harvard's manifest riding and clearing superiority, hard luck (Gordie Nelson hit the post three times to give him a total of seven pipe shots in two games) and Eli perseverance combined to shut out the Crimson in the third period, while Yale crept back to a slight 10-7 deficit...
Columbia may have been thankful for that one stroke of luck. They would, however, have needed many more double faults to give the Crimson even a hint of trouble...
...there was no chance or luck involved in Marshall's ninth inning moonshot. "I wanted at least to get an extra-base hit and drive in Bobby (Kelley) with the winning. I was thinking fastball and it was right there. I swung hard, but down...