Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before last Sunday's Dartmouth match, Morrissey and Reynolds got up from the wooden squash stands at Hemenway Gymnasium, wished each other luck in their upcoming matches, and walked to their separate courts...
...this Beanpot agony? Bill Cleary has mentioned "psychology," "luck" and shrugged it off with the stoic remark, "These things happen...
...fundamental desire of Americans to own their own property, by luck or by pluck, has inspired some creative ways to reclaim the dream. In fact, the rapid increase in prices has prompted many potential buyers to hasten their search, since waiting would put them farther behind. In their zeal to raise down payments, young buyers are raiding their retirement accounts -- and duly paying the penalties -- or ceding part of the equity in their homes to outside investors. Others are turning for help to state-financed programs and innovative private and nonprofit housing developers...
...period authenticities and relentlessly violent plot practically guarantee Billy Bathgate a sale to the movies. Good luck to all concerned, for the novel's greatest strength resides in its least cinematic feature. Billy's language -- breathy, breakneck, massing phrases into great cumulus sentences that rumble with coming rough weather -- is totally unlike the short, syncopated rhythms of Ragtime. At first, readers may wonder how this young, confessed truant has run across terms like "dissynchronously" or where he picked up the poetic skills to describe a waterfall: "At the very bottom there hovered a perpetually shimmering rainbow as if not water...
Brief aside: Colgate is unbeaten at home this season. Good luck, Clarkson...