Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last season, the Harvard men's hockey team traveled up to Dartmouth and Vermont with the possibility of finishing anywhere from third to eleventh. The Crimson swept the weekend, and a little luck vaunted Harvard into fifth place--good for home ice in an eventual first round sweep of Colgate...
...This was a good, very intense, game and I wasa little nervous about it at the end," Stone said."I've seen these kids get the job done so manytimes, but I keep wondering when will our luck runout...
...system said Isabelle Autissier, 42, his French rival in the Around Alone solo global race, had capsized. "The problem is that these positions aren't precise, and it won't be easy to see Isabelle's boat. Visibility is always poor, and in any case I'll need some luck...
...that wants to come into its own while he guiltily broods on hisown climb to success. Master builder Solness' wife, played by Sharon Scruggs, successfully brings his overwhelming, depressing perspective into relief, showing her more personable side only away from his presence. Solness believes thathe has willed all his luck, but when we see that he does not even understand his own wife, the young visitor Hilde Wangel, spunkily played by Kristin Flanders, becomes the cipher through which the audience understands the play. Hilde is young and sensible, pretty and plucky (Solness enunciates "Hilde" like a connoisseur of youth)--without...
...percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...