Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Piece of work. H. Ross Perot. He's the best right-wing populist billionaire we've got in Texas, so if you don't like him, you're out of luck...
...modeled on the conservative Republicans' successful takeover of the G.O.P. -- the D.L.C. seeks to rescue the Democratic Party from its left-leaning tilt. As put by one of its founders, Senator Sam Nunn, "We Democrats can't continue to blame bad candidates, bad tactics and bad luck." The goal, as stated by Clinton, who chaired the council for a year and a half until he resigned an hour before his campaign began last August, is to "develop a new middle ground of thinking on which someone can not only run for President but actually be elected...
...slippers and Dorothy's ruby pumps still tiptoe around the imagination. In the ancient Indian epic the Ramayana, the exiled king leaves behind a single memorable token: a pair of gold-encrusted shoes. Newlyweds once routinely tied a pair of old brogues behind their coach or car for good luck. In the Middle Ages the well-to-do wore poulaines, shoes with pointy, turned-up toes that were thought to ward off witches...
...Ashland, the tall sign at Silton Glass said, "Good luck Eric and 20 Miles To Go." As I walked by, the owner, Frank Tetschner, was taking Eric's name down with a pole twelve feet long. I asked him if Eric had decided not to run, or if they had had a recent falling out. No, Frank said, he had promised another friend, Nona, that he would put her name on the sign and he couldn't fit both names at once. Eric would have to be content with a photograph of the sign with his name...
Jake picked up a penny. "If it was heads up, that would mean luck, and I would have given it to you, and you would have gotton luck too. I have a gallon jar at home full of coins I've picked up while out walking...