Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, scientists believe, the town has the bad luck to sit atop a weak spot, and as the plate moves, it stretches -- and sometimes cracks. Now a report in Science bears out that belief: a new survey reveals that stresses in the earth have been rising sharply in the area since the 1950s. The amount of change points to a big quake in about 1,000 years, which is roughly the historical average indicated by the geological evidence. But that is just an ^ average. It could also happen tomorrow...
...pick up its first non-Ivy win in two years, Harvard will need a good dose of luck today (a little valium in the Tribe water bottles wouldn't hurt either). But given that, Harvard has a few important tasks in particular to carry...
...minds. But this new flurry of draft stuff has caused us to wonder again. We thought he had learned that Henry Kissinger was right when he said that political survival demands that 'whatever will come out eventually come out immediately.' We thought he had learned not to push his luck, and when he said there was finally nothing more to say ((in Clinton's now infamous "last word" statement on the draft to the American Legion on Aug. 25)), we believed him. We're his friends, and we know him better than most, but we're as mystified as everyone...
...understand his candidate's self- defeating silence, a senior Clinton aide turned again to Hart and recalled the miniautobiography Hart had written shortly before the 1988 campaign. In the last paragraph of that otherwise forgettable book, Hart said, "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck he can play with.' As usual," continued Hart, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Clinton has already admitted an overeagerness to please, an aversion to saying anything that could cause people to dislike him. If he doesn't transcend that...
...Crimson attack, Locker promises, will be atactical one, not one that relies on luck...