Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...played hard. We played confidently. That's a great sign at this point of the season," Caples said. "We're making better shots. We're pulling the trigger. Luck is hard work and preparation...
...round the hapless damsels' necks and with unimaginable cruelty is teasing his victims by rocking the rickety bench which stands between them and death. But he delays too long, giving the Injuns time to gallop up and save the day by attempting to slaughter all the inhabitants, starting, as luck would have it, with the malicious magistrate. Amid all the confusion of the attack, Joffe manages to sneak a cloyingly happy ending past the logic of the distracted narrative...
...Boston had no drawing schools or art collections; a cabinetmaker there could see first-class examples of English furniture, which the elite of Massachusetts bought in quantity, but no budding artist could lay eyes on an original work by Sir Joshua Reynolds, let alone by Rembrandt or Raphael. With luck he could see a few prints (the show contains some eager attempts by the young Copley to copy mythological subjects from mezzotints), but that...
...understand is how they complement each other; how one's ability to handle stress, for instance, affects the ability to concentrate and put intelligence to use. Among the ingredients for success, researchers now generally agree that IQ counts for about 20%; the rest depends on everything from class to luck to the neural pathways that have developed in the brain over millions of years of human evolution...
Youth and luck were the keys to the Harvard men's soccer team's 2-1 come-from-behind victory over Boston University yesterday at Ohiri Field...