Word: lucked
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Following the Harvard women's basketball team's65-64 upset of Dartmouth Tuesday, spoiling the BigGreen's perfect Ivy record and possibly knockingit out of contention for an NCAA tournament bid,the Crimson didn't have as much luck when theAll-Ivy awards were announced yesterday...
...game was far out of reach, there wasno chippiness, no unnecessary fighting andcertainly no giving up. When the two teams linedup for the post-game handshake, Young huggedCornell's Dave Burke and Tim Vanini and, amidstthe screams of the Big Red fans who had floodedthe ice, wished them luck...
After testing his weight, cooking expertise, luck and ability to tell `shit from shinollah,' Lampoon editors declared Cleese the winner. After besting his opponents, the star of A Fish Called Wanda raised his hands and flashed the victory sign...
Little did he suspect just how long -- or rugged -- that road would be. For most of his early life, there had been ample good luck. His father, a tailor, struck it rich in 1944 by winning the national lottery. That, and a partial scholarship, enabled Duarte to attend the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a degree in civil engineering. When he returned home, Duarte married the daughter of his father's best friend and joined his father-in-law's lucrative construction firm as a partner. In 1960 Duarte helped found the Christian Democratic Party, and four years...
Ethiopia. As one of the troika of African states -- with Angola and Mozambique -- that remain most closely aligned with the East bloc, Ethiopia's regime has had scant luck with Marxism-Leninism for some time. More than a year ago, Moscow warned officials in the capital, Addis Ababa, that its multimillion-dollar military-assistance package would be significantly cut when the current agreement expires next year. Since then, the last of several thousand Cuban soldiers have departed, more than one-third of the 2,500 Soviet military and development advisers and their dependents have pulled out, and it is rumored...