Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the plumpish, corseted blonde doled out details (she was a "friend" of the escapee, who had phoned her from Havana for money), the Herald put in a quick call to Miami International Airport. There, by luck, the paper had a man waiting for the next plane to Havana. What's more, Reporter James Coe Buchanan was just the man for the story. On previous Cuban assignments, he had hidden out with Castro rebels, filed eyewitness accounts of the bloody skirmishing. And last summer, when Castro troops trapped a tiny invasion force from the Dominican Republic, wiry, 43-year...
Winter closed the St. Lawrence Seaway this week, and the score was in on its first season. Through October the new waterway moved 17.4 million tons of cargo, well short of the 25 million ton goal. Part of the reason was bad luck; the U.S. steel strike had cut off iron-ore shipments from Labrador and traffic of other bulk commodities was down...
...suggested that a more cooperative food, such as spaghetti, be allowed to try its luck...
...Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week made a daring, four-day, 35-appearance assault on Nixon Country-the Pacific Coast-and came out swinging. In California, heartland of the Nixon-for-President movement, Rocky got a few bruises, changed hardly a vote. His luck was better in the friendlier climate of Washington and Oregon (Oregon's crucial primary will be held next May). But wherever he went. Rockefeller left the strong impression of a slugger who is going to wage an all-out campaign for the nomination he wants...
...suspended for two years as a result of the ill will created by the fray. The CRIMSON charged, "Harvard clearly outplayed her opponent at every point; in team work, in punting and drop-kicking, and, in many cases, in individual playing. Yet Yale, by a combination of good luck, and questionable decisions of the officials of the game, not only defeated Harvard, but had some points to spare..." The contest was marked by a rash of injuries, mostly to Harvard men. Indignation was widespread for a long time afterwards...