Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Courier surprised almost everyone. At Indian Wells last year, after early- round victories, he said he was winning because he had new self-knowledge and discipline. At the time most reporters thought he was just having a lucky week. He has turned it into the luck of a lifetime...
Unfortunately, that's how my mother and many of my friends and other family members in America translate the fact that I spent the past six months in Israel's capital and lived to tell about it. They think only luck--or, better yet, divine intervention--can explain my "survival" in a city best known these days for stabbings, shootings and other messy manifestations of the Palestinian Israeli conflict...
...luck, any present or former Radcliffe student can attest to my absolute lack thereof. As for life-saving help from the Good Guy in the Sky, I'm the first to acknowledge having received a bit in the past. How else can I explain making it through Social Studies sophomore tutorial last year...
...small expedition to Lake Maracaibo. There she took blood samples from several members of the Huntington's family and sent the samples back to the U.S. for analysis, hoping they might provide a clue to the illness. No luck. Undaunted, she returned to Venezuela in 1981, this time with a larger team and a detailed battle plan. Interviewing hundreds of family members, she began constructing a huge family tree, tracing the transmission of the Huntington's gene from generation to generation. From each person on the chart, she took blood and skin samples...
Another Gang Peace volunteer, Keith Meredith,31, tries to start the meeting in Rodney'sabsence. No luck...