Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles wants no dudes, loafers and paupers; people who have no means and trust to luck, cheap politicians, failures, bummers, scrubs, impecunious clerks, bookkeepers, lawyers, doctors. We need workers! Hustlers! Men of brains, brawn and guts! Men who have a little capital and a good deal of energy-first-class...
...luck of the Irish gave the City of Dublin its most popular mayor last year when the name of City Councilman Robert Briscoe, a Jew, was drawn from a hat to settle a tie in the voting. The fact that the new chief executive of the capital city of Roman Catholic Ireland belonged to an alien faith made Briscoe a headline name throughout the world, and the new Lord Mayor's winning, puckish and amiable personality did the rest. This spring, after he returned home from a triumphant tour of the U.S., extolling Ireland and Israel (the United Jewish...
Hugo La Fayette Black, 71, President Roosevelt's first (and then-furiously opposed) appointee to the bench. Grew up in poverty in Alabama, studied his law at the University of Alabama, built a practice on hard-luck clients, served briefly as police magistrate, entered the Senate in 1927. There he fought hard for New Deal, built a reputation as a relentless Senate investigator of lobbying and trusts, stood solidly on liberal side of the line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional...
...women of her acquaintance. The backgrounds range from bomb-flattened Warsaw to fat and peaceful Stockholm, from English country houses to the ski slopes of Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus herself (she has Swedish, Polish, Finnish and American blood), and their luck is uniformly bad. Placid Maria is forced into marriage with a Russian count; lovely Lisa's husband dies in the war; reckless Clarissa gets pregnant by a social inferior; Polish Teresa lets her fiance go rather than subject him to Communism; headstrong Rosemary's lover already...
Daring to risk their luck almost entirely abroad, the Behns first startled financiers in 1924 by winning a concession to manage and modernize Spain's sputtering national telephone system, went on to set up 33 international manufacturing and research facilities. They were big enough by 1928 to acquire the Mackay companies, including Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. (eventually merged with Western Union). Until 1930, Sosthenes' tireless negotiating made I.T. & T. grow throughout the world, spread the company into Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, England, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Rumania...