Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado-bound varsity hockey team received a stroke of good luck yesterday when it drew Michigan as its first round opponent in the NCAA hockey tournament starting next Thursday. The Crimson will play the Huskies Friday night, while favored Colorado College meets Clarkson Thursday night...
...Premier zipped about the country in his green Thunderbird, handing out boxes of "Pibul matches" and replicas of his personal Buddha charm. Since Pibul's countrymen reckon that any man who has survived one kidnaping, two attempted assassinations by snooting and one by poisoning must have supernatural luck, the charm went over...
...enough to convince Eli hockey coach John Murdock, who is a member of the NCAA selection board, that the Crimson should be one of the teams to go to Colorado next week. It is true that only Yale goalie Gerry Jones and a certain amount of pure luck kept last Saturday's score between the two teams down to 4-2, but to show that this score was not a true indication of the Crimson's ability, the varsity must trounce the Elis tonight...
...civil resistance movement against dictatorship and corruption, are supporting Castro. "An internal struggle is now taking place that is more than an effort by the outs to get in." luck he can hang on until his term ends in February...
...necessary and therefore good. Candide and Dr. Pangloss had a terrible time in the earthquake, despite their good characters; only a "brutal sailor" did well out of the disaster, happy in the ruins with loot, wine and women. Thus Voltaire derided the notion that those who have bad luck must deserve it. Some men as sensible as Voltaire, and more charitable, recalled what Jesus said on the occasion of a mishap in the Holy Land: "Those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem...