Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hates us, big deal. Who's Dean Epps? He doesn't know any more than we do. He doesn't like controversy--he wants smooth sailing. If the administration doesn't like us, if gay groups don't like us, if pro-choice groups don't like us, tough luck...
...precise wording of the form letters has been lost to history, but I can still conjure up their face-saving phrases like "many strong candidates" and "very difficult decisions." Reading them one right after another, it seemed like an Ivy League chorus was cheerfully wishing me "the best of luck with your college career." Best of luck, that is, as long as I enrolled somewhere else...
...rarely display back East. Lawyers and physicists may often rate colleagues by the quality of their professional education, but an enduring adult fascination with undergraduate pedigrees remains acute in the fields I know well, such as journalism and politics, where it is still possible to achieve success through talent, luck and a good B.A. degree. For example, at the Washington Post in the early 1980s, so thick were the references to bright college days in Cambridge, Mass., that I sometimes felt I was working at the Harvard Crimson alumni association. Peggy Noonan in her best-selling White House memoir, What...
...Think you can get rid of me with that smarmy, unctuous reply, do you? Well, no such luck." (Tears...
...first of his generation to get so near the presidency. Was it all dumb luck? Garry Wills looks at the secret of his success. -- Sunbelt mud bath: Democrats in Texas, Florida and California cut each other up while G.O.P. candidates are rested, ready and rich...