Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deperonization. The luck of the struggle dictated that Heroes Lonardi and Rojas should be the new President and Vice President. Because the revolution had no goals beyond liberation, the succeeding days became a time for opportunistic maneuvering by the political forces of right, center and left. The right soon captured Lonardi and sold him a policy of appeasing Peronistas in the hope of forming them into a right-wing political party. Item: Lonardi refused to take La Prensa away from the C.G.T. Other revolutionary leaders watched in rising dismay. One Sunday afternoon two months after Lonardi took office, the revolutionaries...
...Hard Luck. In Auckland, N.Z., ex-Pugilist K. O. wrote the New Zealand Herald's editor: "With reference to the article, 'Superstitions Are Strong,' I can corroborate the power of amulets. The only time I was successful at boxing was when I had a lucky horseshoe in one of my gloves...
...bestseller, Room at the Top, by John Braine, published in England just ten weeks ago, the third face of Lucky Jim emerges: that of the intellectual spiv ruthlessly making his luck. Joe Lampton is only a town clerk, but he knows what he wants-an Aston-Martin sports car, a villa in Cannes, and a girl who will look just right in either. When the daughter of the local industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room...
...Lode. Louise's luck was phenomenal. She got to the freewheeling West when her father, after serving in the Mexican War, settled in tiny Downieville, Calif., where his earnings went into worthless mining stocks. Louise, her mother and grandmother joined him after a journey of 5,000 miles by boat and muleback. At 16, pretty, dark-haired Louise made a disastrous marriage to a local doctor who was as calamitous a speculator as her father. When he was found dying at Poverty Hill, Calif., riddled by drugs and alcohol, 22-year-old Louise was left penniless with a crippled...
...singles competition, the Crimson players ran into bad luck, as all except Junta were eliminated by the quarterfinal round. Gottlieb, seeded sixth, drew a first round bye, defeated Yale's Sam Schoonmaker in the second round, but ran into trouble in the third, losing to Don Hicks, whom he had beaten 6-0, 6-0 in the Harvard-Amherst match...