Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That was the year he and two other men paid a surveyor to plot out the town. That year -- and any other, according to a town history -- he was good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down on his luck. After the Depression, my father told me, F.H. made no effort to collect debts. He had never been much good at retrieving his money, which was odd for a man who in one lifetime used up all his family's financial-brilliance genes for several generations to come. While...
With each pitch, my sweaty hand gripped the leg of the table a little tighter, my heart and soul pleading for a Yankee hit. I even developed constantly changing rituals that I would repeat to myself, hoping they would somehow bring luck to one of those pinstriped heroes at the plate...
...folks at Radio Sofia Bulgaria were into seasonal gifts. They sent me gushy cards on almost every occassion and each spring sent me a pair of red and white good luck tassles. Every year, a pair of tassles. I hung them on a pushpin in my wall until too many had accumulated. Then I began keeping one in my wallet for good luck...
After a massive manhunt, police announced last week that they had finally collared Dart Man. The suspect: Jerome Wright, 33, a messenger at a Midtown advertising agency who police said was on probation for a previous drug conviction and had been under observation for psychiatric problems. They had less luck with Zodiac, who evaded a citywide dragnet. Where are Batman and Robin when Gotham City really needs them...
Others tinker more creatively with the familiar noir premise of treachery getting its just deserts. In Backfire (Showtime) the wife of a disturbed Vietnam vet plots to drive him crazy so he'll attempt suicide. He obliges only to the extent of lapsing (darn the luck) into a catatonic state, which is only the beginning of the wife's comeuppance. In Buried Alive (USA) another scheming housewife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) conspires with her doctor lover to bump off her husband with poison. Again the plan goes awry: she gives him too small a dose, and the authorities only think...