Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly should have been in the top two," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "We have the best record in the country. I think, however, we should have gotten the top seed, instead of Maine, because of our record. But the best of luck to them...
...kind of wish that if you had the choice to do it all over again, you would have chosen to play basketball over Little League, so that with a little luck and a lot of talent, you could have become the shooting guard for North Carolina instead of some college hoops freak who eats Doritos and drinks beer every weekend in front of a color television...
Polsky: "When the first letters arrived I chalked it up as beginners luck. But when Mr. Gorbachev called to ask for a few of my words on President Bush's recent lectures, I knew I had something special. The recent success has taken me aghast and the fan mail has been darn overwhelming. Work for a new mini-series starts in May and I really couldn't be more excited. Most great thinkers are only recognized posthumously. But just like a pebble dropped into a pond, my words have spread out in ever increasing concentric circles to touch all intelligent...
...Crimson was led by Tri-Captain Sheila Morrissey, who breezed into the quarterfinals with three consecutive wins. The luck of the draw then placed the Harvard senior against number-one seed and eventual champion, Demer Holleran of Princeton. Morrissey's loss in three straight games to Holleran sent her to the "feed-in" consolation rounds...
Then strength and her adventurer's enchanted luck took over. She swung her ice ax, sunk it into the snow face and performed a perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...