Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have cost too much to ship many adult baboons (up to 60 Ibs. each) to the U.S., but luck was with Dr. Werthessen. He learned by chance that a Texas zoo had a surplus stock of dog-faced baboons-they had been bred in the zoo for 20 years, and the pack had had only two "old men" to sire all the offspring. This line breeding gave them a start toward genetic purity-a most desirable quality in research animals...
...week's end Jordan was still lustily celebrating the King's deliverance, as well as his 23rd birthday. Whatever the unpopularity of his regime, the festivities proved that he was personally popular, and admired more than ever now for having shown the quality of luck. Had he been killed over Syria, however, Jordan might now be plunged into revolution, and the Middle East into war. This knowledge kept everyone from laughing too hard at the great snafu...
...semiconscious from a disabled turret before the Suvoroff sank, had no excuses and offered none. On his way back to St. Petersburg for court martial (he was acquitted) and retirement, he said: "No, there was no treason. We just weren't strong enough-and God gave us no luck...
None of the entrants guessed the correct score of Saturday's game, but this was not through lack of effort. One ambitious prognosticator tried his luck 286 times, and lost...
Pluck & Prose. During his boyhood in Minnesota and Chicago, Author Gruber was influenced by the works of Horatio Alger, and his philosophy is still sturdily Horatian: he figures that if he works hard enough he can write and sell almost anything. With pluck, luck and plain prose about the plains he has published 41 novels, sold 20 to the movies, done an additional 54 screen plays, 90 TV scripts and written 350 short stories. The fact that he owns 15% of Wells Fargo does not keep him from writing scripts for other oaters (e.g., Desilu's The Texan...